I was just explaining how it could be a cut from one perspective and not another.
It isn't a cut from the perspective of arithmetic.
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Again. it depends on whose arithmetic.
The citizen, who is finding it harder to get by, or the OMB, that has a slightly larger overall figure on a balance sheet.
Reagan's government, remember, tried to have ketchup in children's lunches defined as a necesary vegetable serving.
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