re: #270 prononymous

Yeah, I agree that a $100 million cut is worthy of mention. But I’d also say that we are just arguing over degrees now. A $100 million cut is worthy of mention but a $56 million cut isn’t? If we just agree that cutting an infectious disease program is bad then we could look for ways to keep it while still slimming the budget.

Yes. I agree again. And I personally wouldn’t cut this type of program unless i had it on good authority that I could do so without reducing output (i.e. an efficiency gain). But i don’t mean to argue over degrees, but rather to gently note that if a $156MM cut allows us to make statements like

You see, to the GOP at large “welfare people” is scarier than any disease the GOP’s cost cutting measures might cause to flourish. As long as the lower income GOPs believe it’s a war on welfare people, and not them, they’ll support it til Doomsday.

(see comment 88), then we ought to have been saying something 2/3 as bad about Obama around February of last year.

Unless we’re just being partisan…which is fine, as long as we’re transparent about it.