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April 15, 2011

Tell Congress to Stop Lying and Start Cutting

Quote of the Day: “Somehow, we could ratchet up spending by hundreds of billions at the drop of a hat. Reducing spending by less than $100 billion becomes Armageddon.” — Arnold Kling

Copy or borrow from the letter I sent to Congress this morning:

You told us you were cutting the budget by $38.5 billion. You lied.

The CBO (Congressional Budget Office) says that your omnibus spending bill only cuts budgeted spending by $325 million. That’s million, NOT billion.

But it gets worse. The CBO also says that spending actually INCREASES by $3.3 billion when you include so-called emergency spending.

I will be blunt. Please pay close attention. YOU NEED TO STOP LYING AND START CUTTING!

END LETTER

You can send your letter to Congress using DownsizeDC.org’s Educate the Powerful System.

People need to know how untrustworthy the Congress is. Share this with your friends and re-tweet this message: http://twitter.com/DDCDispatch

Perry Willis
Vice President
DownsizeDC.org, Inc.

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