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This week, I'm learning all about budget cutting and living within our means, whereas

I found out it's a really cool doing whatever you've always wanted to do anyways.

Thanks to that mean old deficit, which is really nice, see it works like this.

I hate broccoli, buck, so in order to save money, I propose a broccoli budget cutting repair

bill, which will wipe broccoli from the face of the earth!

And I'll never have to buy broccoli again, and in the Democrats don't like it and try

to stop me.

I'll threaten to shut Joe no government, just like a grown-up, well you can do this with

broccoli, Brussels sprouts and homework, or teachers, regulation and head start.

You don't like it and have always wanted it gone, cut it, and blame it on fiscal responsibility

or some other grown-up sounding words.

It's like getting a note from your mom who weighs 14 trillion dollars!

Step, after Republicans pass the shut-up and work big businesses in charge act, I'm going

to be fiscally responsible by passing the ponies for Susie priority spending and deficit

reduction bill.

And that's why I learned about budget cutting the end.

One of the awful things about the economy is how slow the unemployment rate is dropping.

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