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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs

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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (41270)3/1/2010 10:24:33 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
cognitive dissonance

nytimes.com

it would be a terrible mistake to borrow against our children’s future to pay our way today

That’s Obama telling us that deficit spending for current consumption is a bad idea.

I agree.

…but WT* !?!?

I continue to think that the Republicans should introduce a balanced budget amendment. It should (a) phase in gradually, maybe only taking full effect 15 years out; (b) be override-able by a super majority of both the House and the Senate (say, 80% of each).

The former point is so that the voting on it isn’t derailed by catastrophic images of granny going hungry next year.

The latter point is so that we’re not forced (”forced”) to repeal it in 10 years when some major hit occurs – the ammendment can survive a massive war, a recession, etc.

tjic.com

# coyote Says:
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:58 am Quote

counter-proposal — forget a balanced budget. Set a Constitutional cap on spending as a percent of GDP, with the same override provisions

tjic.com
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