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Wishful thinking.
by tonto_goldberg

The GOP needs a real idea, not a recycled bumper sticker slogan. With unemployment at the level it is now and production and consumption numbers still sluggish, only the tea baggers and the other reality-deprived Rush/Hannity/Beck listeners will follow your Pied Piper song. First things first. There will come a day of reckoning soon enough, but we have to worry about jobs and growth so we can have tax revenue to get deficits under control.

Please go back and read a few of the articles about the efforts of Congress to reduce the deficit in 1937. A budding recovery was murdered in an effort to get deficit spending under control.

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