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Originally posted by swissmiss04
Interesting article. What are the figures for each department for *this* year. Will they remain steady between now and '05? Have there been any drastic cuts since Bush took office? All these things are necessary before anyone can judge. Even still, I can't fathom how there could be any further cuts into some of the programs that are already suffering for funding. Also somewhat suspicious of the fact that these decisions won't be made until after the election.
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One important thing to note is, when articles such as these talk about "cuts", the departments in question are not going to be losing money. They are not going to be getting $10 billion dollars this year and 5 billion next. Every year, departments get increases based on.... something (sorry, don't know that). When you hear about cuts being made to departments, they are talking about cuts in those increases. So instead of getting $10 billion this year, and $15 billion next year, they will only get $12.5 billion or something like that. I think that's often misunderstood.