Finally, real cuts in spending.

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Brought to you, again, by Republicans in Congress.
WASHINGTON - Republicans won an early round Wednesday in their fight to shrink the government, pushing $4 billion in spending cuts through Congress in a bill that puts off the possibility of a government shutdown for two weeks.

It's just a start, but it's the right direction at last.

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[typewriterking]

And the administration now wants to sell real estate, so there's a surprising bit of federal downsizing from a surprising source.

I just kinda wish the feds started selling real estate during the boom, rather than the bust. Buy low, sell high. I guess that even when the government starts doing something right, it has to do it at the wrong time.

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I don't think they're going to do it well at all. There will be huge overhead, unreasonable restrictions and it will only prolong the housing problems.

Money would be better spent tearing down old/inefficient housing and neighborhoods that have been abandoned. Turn it back into farmland and create nature preserves.

[izuko]

You call those real cuts?

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As I said, it's only a start but it's the right direction.

It certainly is better than "promising to cut later" or pretending a freeze at high spending levels is s cut.