>>Would someone PLEASE show how that is a cut ?

Well sure. They wanted $1280 million increase, they only got $615 million increase, so that must be a $656 million cut, right ?

It's even worse up here in Canada. Seems like all the political parties aim their announcements at the "easily confused" portion of the electorate. Problem is that the "easily confused" demographic seems to be growing every year and now makes up the majority of the voting population.

Thirty years ago politicians needed to be a bit clever when they offered to give "something for nothing", with tricks like deficit financing in peacetime and "selling off assets to balance the budget". Now they just lie to our faces and get away with it. Maybe we need to reduce electoral terms to match our ever-decreasing attention spans. We could start with a 3 month term -- Bush would have been tossed out and then voted back in by now

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