| In his second press conference on the economy in two days, Mr Obama said: ?If we?re going to make the investments we need, we must also be willing to shed the spending we don?t. We cannot sustain a system that bleeds billions of taxpayer dollars on programmes that have outlived their usefulness, or exist solely because of the power of a politician, lobbyist, or interest group,? he said. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.