The Right's Painfully Stupid Approach To Budget-Cutting

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/476963/the_right%27s_painfully_stupid_approach_to_budget-cutting/

If you've been reading conservative columnists lately, you might think balancing the budget via spending cuts is easy. That's what they keep telling us, anyway. Under the headline "Look, It's Easy to Whittle the Budget Down," for example, Donald Lambro writes:

There are lots of places where spending can be cut and billions saved. Among them:

-- Federal aid to the states: A study by budget analyst Chris Edwards at the Cato Institute found there are 1,122 aid-to-state programs, or "72 percent more programs than just a decade ago." "For lawmakers looking for places to cut, the $650 billion federal-aid empire would be a good place to start," he says.

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-- Cut the government's travel budget to half of its level. Savings: $5.8 billion.

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