02-03-2011, 07:17 PM
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Keeneland
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Originally Posted by dellinger63
You are clueless.
Government reports $15B in contract cuts, first reduction since 1997
By Ed O'Keefe
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 3, 2011; 6:49 PM
In what administration officials describe as a major milestone, the federal government spent $15 billion less on contracts for outside products and services last year, the first year-to-year cuts in such costs since 1997.
Government contracts totaled $535 billion in fiscal 2010, down from $550 billion the year before, the White House said Thursday.
With those reductions, the Obama administration is on course to achieve its two-year goal of eliminating at least $40 billion on contract spending, according to Office of Management and Budget Deputy Director Jeffrey D. Zients.
If you spend $5,500 on outside landscaping and decrease to $5,350 and then say I got a deal for it when it's a wild field with a bunch of weeds you may be on to something. LMAO
How about we just go back to what all Dems/pre-Obama crack-whore-spending, called a inflated budget with the two needless wars and all and start from there as a mendoza-line?????????
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So, your position is that cutting 15 billion dollars out of the budget - not spending it - is bad.
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