MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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The GOP Might Lose the Shutdown Battle, but It's Already Won the Spending War
By artappraiser on Thu, 10/03/2013 - 12:08am |Don't say Democrats aren't compromising. Their bill last night (rejected by the House GOP) would have funded government at Paul Ryan-levels.
By Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, Oct. 1, 2013
[....] today's news is a data point in a much larger story: Republicans have, in the last two terms, masterfully whittled down federal spending, often with precisely this form of brinksmanship.
The Senate bill funds the 2014 government at a level 18 percent below the president proposed five years ago; 17 percent below the Democratic Congress proposed four years ago; 10 percent below Paul Ryan and Republicans proposed three years ago; and 8 percent below the debt ceiling compromise two years ago (see graph, via Michael Linden and Harry Stein). The Senate bill is less than 2 percent away from Paul Ryan's own 2014 budget [....]
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http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/10/the-gop-might-lose-the-shutdown-battle-but-its-already-won-the-spending-war/280145/
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