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How Much Impact Will a 2% Budget Cut Have?

Budget cuts and scare tactics.

I read an article over the weekend that the 2% budget cut will restrict FHA’s ability to do mortgages in a timely way. I was not aware that FHA did any mortgages? So why would they possibly put information like this out there?

It is about time, some of the fat was cut out of government! I am sick and tired about the scare tactics, that budget cuts will bring the world to an end. We need to continue the process of further budget cuts.

At the end of March we are now facing another budget problem, this country will supposedly run out of money and once again we are facing the need to raise the National debt ceiling, so that we can keep paying our bills. OK, let’s raise it, but not without further budget cuts.

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We are already at 16.5 trillion, that is a serious amount of zeros. We have to stop this runaway spending that Washington is so good at. Here is a news flash, this is not a political issue, it is a survival issue for our country.

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