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one_voice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 11:35 PM
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Hey Cantor how 'bout you stop being a hypocrite...
you want to get rid of Medicare, medicaid, ss etc. Why don't you explain this:

This is an older article, but very appropriate given what' been going on..

Virginia's love-hate relationship with federal spending

...He cited the state's low corporate tax rate, its business-friendly regulations and right-to-work laws that prohibit requiring employees to join unions.

One factor the Republican didn't mention: The massive flow of federal spending that provides the core of Northrop's business and has made it the nation's 61st-largest company.

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Ten cents of every federal procurement dollar spent anywhere on Earth is spent in Virginia. More than 15,000 Virginia companies hold federal contracts, a number that has almost tripled since 2001. Total federal spending -- from salaries to outsourced contracts -- has more than doubled, to $118 billion, since 2000, as homeland security and defense spending skyrocketed in response to the 2001 terrorist attacks and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. By 2008, it accounted for about 30 percent of Virginia's entire economy.

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U.S. House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) has said excessive spending "threatens the future of our nation, our workers, and our families." State Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R) has decried the costs of a federal health-care bill that he will soon argue in court is also unconstitutional.


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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/05/AR2010050505205.html
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 11:42 PM
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1. Rec
I like this ......... good find

Add to this all the federal employees that live there
Most be other federal agencies that are in Virginia


cantor is a liar and a weeping boner suckee
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 12:00 AM
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2. Isn't he a Repugnicant? n/t
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