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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (707257)	4/3/2013 8:32:11 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572336

>I don't care who said "Deficits don't matter" or who was originally responsible for the mess Obama has to deal with. I'm currently looking out my window at the still-unfinished "Freedom Tower," which is supposed to replace the World Trade Center towers. It's twelve years after those towers were destroyed, and yet there's still no exterior on the top ten or so floors. But who do I blame for that building not being complete yet? Obama? Bloomberg? No. Still Osama bin Laden. Just like you can't rebuild an entire 100+ story building overnight, you can't rebuild a 4 trillion dollar economy for 300 million people overnight. But just like I see progress being made on the Freedom Tower every time I look, I see progress made on the economy. Unemployment ain't where I want it to be, but it's certainly much better than it was. The deficit is slated to be something like half this year what it was in 2009. >I do care whether YOU think deficits matter or not, because people like YOU are voting for the representatives that are trashing this country's fiscal future. I think that all things being equal, it's better in the long term to not have deficits than to have them. But all things are usually not equal, and "long term" in the life of a country that hopefully will exist forever is very relative. -Z