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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (399)11/13/2002 1:14:36 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 7936
 
balanced budget grub



To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (399)11/13/2002 1:18:22 AM
From: MSI  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 7936
 
Not to be too specific, but there are those who too often sound like soft-headed sophists, try to be authoritative on things they know nothing about, who don't even have a job, never ran a business in their life and who's spouse works as one of those at the trough of the Beltway Bandits. "Accountability" is something they wish, like the rest of gov't, to be willfully, even militantly ignorant of.

I.e., they breathe the same smoke as all the other RWE who are dependent on government, and so justify it in every way possible, ignoring the dirty little secret that they are parasitically dependent on the good wishes of the rest of us.

And I mean that in the nicest possible way, of course ...



To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (399)11/13/2002 10:31:14 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 7936
 
Does "fiscally responsible leadership" imply balanced budgets?

Not necessarily but if leadership is fiscally responsible budgets should be balanced in good times and show a surplus (at least if there is debt to pay down) or in boom times. Deficits during recessions or time of war might be better then the alternatives, but deficits year after year or as you call them "endless deficits" are not a good thing.

Tim