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Obama: Washington treats tax dollars like Monopoly money
By: Charlie Spiering
Online Community Manager
03/12/10 1:52 PM EST
President Obama has been spending his week doing 'campaign-style' events to promote his version of health care reform. But how can he continue to blast "Washington" for wasting money when he is the one occupying the White House, and his party controls Congress?
From a transcript of his speech in Missouri:
As we were driving in, I was saying, boy, it's just good to be back in the Midwest, this is about as close as I've been to home in a while. And part of the reason it's just good to be back is because Washington is a place where tax dollars are often treated like Monopoly money -- they're bartered and traded, and they're divvied up among lobbyists and special interests, and where waste -- even billions of dollars of waste -- is accepted as the price of doing business. When we proposed, by the way, those $20 billion in cuts last year, we were ridiculed by the press, said, "Ah, that's just a spit in the bucket." Now, I don't know about here in St. Charles, $20 billion, that's real money, isn't it?
Just who does he think is wasting the money, anyway?
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