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  I can see it now. All of the DHS and DOD folks that are being thrown into the new HR systems won't be getting any worthwhile cash awards in the next few years because the systems won't be properly funded to allow bonuses to be paid to deserving employees.

  GovExec.com reader Posted January 21, 2005 7:32 PM
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  I could not help but notice that most of the identified cuts in the article affect the lower-middle to lower class. College grants, maintaining public housing and providing downpayment assistance to low-income workers and aid to the homeless and people with AIDS. The Transportation Department's budget declined by 5 percent. I make enough where none of this affects me, and I recieved some benefit from the tax cuts of the last few years. How can you lower taxes on people like me and those richer, and at the same time make these types of cuts? Couldn't we make maybe a dozen less 100 million dollar missiles instead?

  GovExec.com reader Posted January 20, 2005 1:15 PM
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  "Congress froze funding for grants to college students and reduced outlays for programs that help localities hire police officers and maintain sewer systems. The National Science Foundation incurred the largest budget cut in its history - $105 million below the fiscal 2004 level. Research grants and science education funding were slashed by $30 million."

  More forget about the future, let's spend it today/free lunch republican thinking. The situations are (obvioulsy) not 100% parallel but if I ran my family finances the way our administration runs the country's finances, I would be considered to be hopeless according to everything I have read by financial advisors. Also, not working according to whose opinion?. I don't trust the typical congress member and I certainly don't trust any one on the president's staff to have the specialized knowledge necessary to make informed decisions, yet I'm sure these are just the people who will be.

  Bill Turnbull Posted January 20, 2005 11:20 AM
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  And Rome burned while Nero played on...

  GovExec.com reader Posted January 20, 2005 6:12 AM
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  The Republicans have learned. Gingrich tried to cut services outright and was vilified. However, if you create a budget crisis (unnecessary/mismanaged war + excessive tax cut), you have a great justification for doing what you wanted to do all along: cut government services.

  Give them credit, they're smart people. We're just fools for letting them impose their agenda.

  Art Posted January 19, 2005 6:06 PM
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  I love GOVEXEC articles, especially when I read,

  'We're going to be wise about how we spend your money," he said in an interview with USA Today last week. "And part of being wise about how we spend your money is, we're not going to increase money on programs that aren't working. We're results-oriented people."

  Tears are rolling down my eyes in laughter. Because we find ourselves spending billions of dollars on Iraq and on disaster relief and because we foolishly cut revenue to the bone, we are going to eliminate the very programs that are vital to our nation. The President isn't talking about increasing money on programs that aren't working-- this is just another smoke screen to eliminating that are not only working but saving lives.

  I have a better idea- how about raising some revenue to pay for government services!!!!!

  GovExec.com reader Posted January 19, 2005 8:29 AM
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  "And part of being wise about how we spend your money is, we're not going to increase money on programs that aren't working. We're results-oriented people."

  I think Iraq would qualify........

  GovExec.com reader Posted January 19, 2005 7:57 AM