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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (197790)8/20/2012 4:34:05 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 541785
 
This may be a game changer for me. You know my focus on the debt issue, and because of that had hoped that I could vote for Romney.
Good to see you, Steve. Given your focus on the debt issue, the Romney dedication to putting tax cuts before addressing the deficit would seem to make him less attractive than Obama. The entire ACA program, as large as it was, was debt and deficit neutral. Definitely not something I would have done nor recommended. But the Obama folk did that.

The deals they were, of course, willing to strike with the Reps to reduce the deficit but were turned down because of tax increases along the way.

For me, it's a no brainer on that issue. It's just that I don't think deficit reduction is the key economic issue right now. It's getting the economy moving again.

On another note, I thought of you over the weekend after watching Chris Hayes treatment of a new book by Michael Grunwald titled The New New Deal. I remembered that one of the items which troubled you the most about Obama's stimulus package was the lack of infrastructure work. Grunwald addresses that and argues, very effectively so far, that the stimulus was the biggest infrastructure bill in a very, very long time. He has the goods on it and starts with a wonderful story of what happening in the Department of Energy.
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