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Tea Party groups from Speaker John Boehner's Ohio District 8 released the following letter today asking the Speaker and Republican controlled House of Representatives to approve a budget that does not include massive deficit spending over the next two years:

Dear Congressman Boehner,

Our country is barreling down a road of out of control spending, and our "leaders" are engaged in a battle to cut $6 Trillion dollars out of a budget that lasts ten years, when the 112th Congress only has true control over the next two years of spending. Our total national debt is over $14 trillion dollars and still rising. Some are blinded by glimpses of fiscal responsibility, but your "Tea Party" Congressional budget will still result in massive deficit spending in the next two years, raising our total debt to over $16.5 trillion dollars by Election Day 2012.

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