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Obama's budget gives it to U.S. straight
President Barack Obama gambled big Thursday when he unveiled his first budget. He treated taxpayers like grown-ups. His extraordinary candor about what Washington spends, and what he thinks it will cost to get the economy out of the tank and on course for a sound future, is refreshing.
The figures are huge - $3.6 trillion to be spent in 2010, with almost $1.2 trillion of it to be borrowed....
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