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So for those of you actually "researching" and not just flipping on RushFoxBeck, the budget that garnered him attention for being a budget guru is a mess: We spend 12% of GDP on discretionary spending now, his proposal shrinks that to 3%. Coolidge was the last president to see that kind of discretionary spending level. Defense spending alone was 4.7% in 2009. He is going to do this without causing an austerity panic like Europe by cutting unspecified loopholes in the tax code... all while somehow garnering 8% annual growth and maintaining 2% unemployment. His budget is an absolute fantasy that will eliminate a significant portion of revenue inputs while promising that the rest will fall into place "sometime in the next 30 years". Bush was the last president to do that with "temporary" tax cuts over a decade ago, how did that work out? Meanwhile, he supports so called "personhood" amendments that would define a clump of cells in your wife's uterus as a person with full rights and benefits. IVF could not be squared by the personhood definition and those subjected to rape, retarded/deformed or non-viable fetuses would be forced to carry them to term. Government so small it can fit in a uterus. I get not being able to square your values to those of the democratic party, but contorting yourselves to vote against your own self interests as a result of some dodgy ideology is just sad.