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"Republican legislators slammed President Barack Obama's economic agenda on Friday for mimicking the ideals of socialist European governments, one day after the president revealed his $3.6tn budget for 2010. At a conservative policy gathering in Washington, lawmakers repeatedly attacked Obama for planning a massive uptick in spending on energy, education, healthcare and other programmes. "Pushing back these efforts to basically Europeanise America will not be easy,"