I hope people will, you know, sit down and take a look at what we're really looking in terms of cutting in relationship to the total federal government. I mean, What the Republican House has proposed is $61 billion worth of cuts, and that's from a $3.7 trillion, or stated a different way, a 3,700 billion dollars a year budget. I don't think you take a Look at that 1.7% of that budget as being draconian. And we have to start somewhere. (01:52–02:07)
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