Spending Cut Fraud

As angers increases among conservative grass root voters over the massive increase in government spending that "their" politicians -President Bush and the Republican Congress- have implemented, despite the fact that they were elected to prevent the Democrats from increasing spending- and as the pork-barrel Transportation and Energy bills and the Prescription Drug Benefit bill and the massive spending on rebuilding New Orleans means that this will likely continue, Republican House Leaders say they now want to cut $50 billion to at leat partially offset this. However as it turns out, 35 of these 50 billion were already planned and this is not annual cuts but cuts over a 5-year period. Read more about it here.