Sending people to Mars won't help cut the deficit 

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 12:52PM
Talk Radio News Service (Admin) in Address, Congress, Frank, Massachusetts, News/Commentary, barney, bill, clinton, deficit, democrat, president

by Suzia van Swol and Candyce Torres, University of New Mexico-Talk Radio News Service
After the President's Address to Congress, Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) says that he thinks it is possible to cut the deficit in half if, "you stop this cold war defense weapons spending, and you curtail very expensive sending people to Mars, you cut back on excessive agriculture spending as he said, and you let taxes on the wealthiest people go back to where they were under Bill Clinton when the economy prospered, that you can do this." (0:29)

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