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Originally Posted by saden1
The Federal budget is created one year prior. 2010 budget was put together 2009 and is already set in stone. Around this summer the 2011 budget will be put together.
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Sounds good, but fact is, if they want to increase spending they do it through additional budget items. They can certainly freeze spending as well. I know everyone has heard it, but while in the military at the end of the fiscal year we would literally waste ammunition, so that our next year's budget number would not decrease. You could freeze spending now, today if they wanted to, but really, they don't want to, they only want to make the pledge in the election year, and then the new congress will ignore the pledge. been there done that.