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To: TimF who wrote (47242)11/16/2010 2:32:02 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71588
 
Platitudes (even if based in some actual facts) don't cut much ice when faced with the needs of acting in a crisis.

(And... it is HARD to look at that chart and imagine that the Reagan/Bush/Bush II so-called 'plans' to 'reduce federal deficits' have been anything but an unmitigated FAILURE.)

The had achievements in other areas but DEFICIT REDUCTION was manifestly *not* one of them!

If twenty years of modern American history doesn't convince you of that then nothing ever will I suspect.