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TINY CUTS, BIG COMPLAINTS: ?In the context of federal spending that will total something like $3.8 ?

By Glenn Reynolds

TINY CUTS, BIG COMPLAINTS: “In the context of federal spending that will total something like $3.8 trillion this year, $61 billion is a rounding error. Yet the Democrats resisting that amount in House-approved cuts say it will wreck the economy while leaving children unschooled, taking food from the mouths of the elderly, and casting disabled people into the streets. Laughter is the only appropriate response to such predictions. In these absurd times, when both parties quibble over crumbs while the layer cake of debt rises higher and higher, laughter is a mark of fiscal seriousness.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 09, 2011 (boomark / email).