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To: combjelly who wrote (613996)	5/31/2011 5:34:29 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576179

CJ, > But you can have it when times are good. That's where you contradict yourself. You would have to admit that "times were good" under Bush when you called for austerity. > I just find it disturbing to want to want to tank the economy for political gain. But it's natural to accuse others of wanting that? Like I said, it's all a blame game. All to defend permanently bigger government in the name of Keynesian economics. Once times are "good," taxes will be raised, cementing government's more active role in managing (and messing up) the economy. Only problem is that you can't remember the last time the economy was good enough to raise taxes, other than the Clinton boom. And even Clinton didn't dare raise taxes during the boom. Only before it, and only in anticipation of pushing a left-wing agenda that included the now-defunct HillaryCare. Then there's that not-so-trivial part about the government's very active role in creating this current mess in the first place. Might want to fix government before growing it, but all I see are politicians pretending that government is now "fixed" simply because the Democrats are in charge. Tenchusatsu