Republican Senator demands that budget cuts not apply to his state!

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Arjit,

You know that the $50K isn't the issue here. You just tried to make the senator look petty over $50K and you got caught. Try not to be such a little b#### about it.

Sounds petty to me. How much are the Feds expected to pay for the project overall? Why does there have to be proven "a Federal interest" if the Fed is not expected to contribute to the cost? If the Feds didn't need to be involved and the state could do the project all on their own, they wouldn't be standing there with their hand out.

[^_^ 5,021]

Sounds petty to me. How much are the Feds expected to pay for the project overall? Why does there have to be proven "a Federal interest" if the Fed is not expected to contribute to the cost? If the Feds didn't need to be involved and the state could do the project all on their own, they wouldn't be standing there with their hand out.

It doesn't even matter. They should have thought about all the little pet projects they want before they started clamoring for cuts.

What did they think, the only states that would bear the brunt of the cuts would be blue states?

[JohnSmith2007 353]

Sounds petty to me. How much are the Feds expected to pay for the project overall? Why does there have to be proven "a Federal interest" if the Fed is not expected to contribute to the cost? If the Feds didn't need to be involved and the state could do the project all on their own, they wouldn't be standing there with their hand out.

There is a federal law that stops them from doing it on their own. Do I have to paste that part again?

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There is a federal law that stops them from doing it on their own. Do I have to paste that part again?

That is what makes this so beautiful. They can't do this without federal money and.... yet they wanted federal budget cuts.

They got what they asked for.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

There is a federal law that stops them from doing it on their own. Do I have to paste that part again?

Do what? Do a study? What are they studying and why are the Feds involved, if not to cough up even more money later?

[JohnSmith2007 353]

It doesn't even matter. They should have thought about all the little pet projects they want before they started clamoring for cuts.

What did they think, the only states that would bear the brunt of the cuts would be blue states?

Slip sliding away. I got to hand it to you, your even better than fish at dancing.

That is what makes this so beautiful. They can't do this without federal money and.... yet they wanted federal budget cuts.

They got what they asked for.

They, what they? Are you in favor of not cutting the budget? You want more spending? See, I can play this game to.

[mawilson 2,133]

Yes it is pocket change. So what? It's a budget cut. You guys like budget cuts, yes or no?

If you had a debt of $100,000 on a credit card, would you try to fix it

by using one less square of toilet paper every time you use the restroom?

Some cuts are so insignificant, you might as well leave them alone

and go after the big stuff.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

So John, if a Democratic Senator can articulate for you that without Federal funding, they can't continue a project, then you'll see the merit in continuing such a project?

[JohnSmith2007 353]

If you had a debt of $100,000 on a credit card, would you try to fix it

by using one less square of toilet paper every time you use the restroom?

Some cuts are so insignificant, you might as well leave them alone

and go after the big stuff.

Troll is actualy arguing against cuts. So that must mean he is in favor of higher spending.

So John, if a Democratic Senator can articulate for you that without Federal funding, they can't continue a project, then you'll see the merit in continuing such a project?

This is infrastructure spending. The one place that does not need to be cut. But troll knows that. He is just playing with me. He just doesn't like the idea of someone calling him on his very poor attempt at trolling, thats all.

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Slip sliding away. I got to hand it to you, your even better than fish at dancing.

They, what they? Are you in favor of not cutting the budget? You want more spending? See, I can play this game to.

I am not in favor of cutting infrastructure spending. I am in favor of more spending on projects like this SC port.

But you guys aren't. So I hope you enjoy watching your pet project lie idle for a while

[JohnSmith2007 353]

I am not in favor of cutting infrastructure spending. I am in favor of more spending on projects like this SC port.

But you guys aren't. So I hope you enjoy watching your pet project lie idle for a while

You guys, there it is again. What "you guys" is that? The ones that still want this infrastucture project and are mad its getting held up?

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You guys, there it is again. What "you guys" is that? The ones that still want this infrastucture project and are mad its getting held up?

Republicans. Republicans in Congress want to see cuts in all kinds of spending, including infrastructure spending (but not including deploying expensive military assets in Libya).

You got what you want. And if this cut didn't affect SC, you'd not give a damn.

[Zero Sum 305]

Typical Republican-Democrat regimer - arguing over $50000 when the country is facing a $1600000000000 deficit (8 more zeroes).

1 percent by 1 percent for 1 percent...

[mawilson 2,133]

Troll is actualy arguing against cuts. So that must mean he is in favor of higher spending.

I am against cuts that don't do anything to address the deficit problem.

You can't plug a 2 trillion dollar hole by cutting $50,000 here and $70,000 there.

The deficit is 36 million times larger than $50,000. Even if you cut $50,000

every second of every day, it would take you almost a year to get to a

trillion dollars, let alone two.

So, no, I don't want to even look at $50,000 cuts, regardless of how useful

or useless they might be - it's a waste of time!

[JohnSmith2007 353]

Republicans. Republicans in Congress want to see cuts in all kinds of spending, including infrastructure spending (but not including deploying expensive military assets in Libya).

You got what you want. And if this cut didn't affect SC, you'd not give a damn.

Show me where a rep that has any sway over the budget has talked about cutting infrastucture spending.

1 percent by 1 percent for 1 percent...

How is that relevent in any way to what we are now talking about? Is troll a 1%'r?