The past 8 years, perhaps even 30 years, have been a grand experiment im "free" market, anti-regulation, laissez-faire capitalism ... and the results? the verdict ...
House Minority Leader John Boehner said Sunday that defense spending should not be exempt from President Obama's proposed spending freeze.
"I think the president's proposal on freezing non-security domestic spending is a good first step, but it's only $15 billion for each of the next three years," Boehner said on Meet The Press.
I think we can do much better than that. I don't think any agency of the federal government should be exempt from rooting out wasteful spending or unnecessary spending. And I, frankly, I would agree with it at the Pentagon. There's got to be wasteful spending there, unnecessary spending there. It all ought to be eliminated, and we should be going through this budget line by line and, and asking the question, is this spending worth having to borrow money that our kids and grandkids are going to have to pay back? That's the real question. And if we went through the budget line by line like that, I think there's a lot more spending that we could cut. ...
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