Thursday, April 4th Cutting Spending WILL Work Last night on Hannity, I had a discussion with Democratic strategist Joe Trippi who seemed to imply that Europe's economic blight was the result of austerity measures put in place by some countries to help rein in debts. I'd like to point my buddy Joe and other liberals to a recent report put together by Republicans on the Joint Economic Committee. In the report they examined data from respected economists on the impact of spending cuts on economies similar to ours in the United States. Here was their conclusion, as reported by the National Review . ...