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"I think one of the cautions that has to be given to the president and I've talked to some of his people about this is that you can't have so many things on the table that you can't absorb it all. And we can't pay for it all," Powell said on CNN's "State of the Union."
"I think the president, as he moves forward with his initiatives, has to start really taking a very, very hard look at what the cost of all this is," Powell said. "And how much additional bureaucracy and will it be effective bureaucracy be needed to make all of this happen."
/Powell added that he hasn't decided whether he will be supporting Obama for re-election in 2012.
Take your pick:"I think the president, as he moves forward with his initiatives, has to start really taking a very, very hard look at what the cost of all this is," Powell said. "And how much additional bureaucracy and will it be effective bureaucracy be needed to make all of this happen."
/Powell added that he hasn't decided whether he will be supporting Obama for re-election in 2012.
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