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    W.H. Sounding Alarm on Budget Deficit
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    Voters appear to be aware that the federal government is spending at unprecedented levels, but they believe the benefits are accruing mostly to large banks, Wall Street and manufacturing firms (which I'd wager really means General Motors), but not to average people Full Article at NewsMax
    Voters appear to be aware that the federal government is spending at unprecedented levels, but they believe the benefits are accruing mostly to large banks, Wall Street and manufacturing firms (which I'd wager really means General Motors), but not to average people
    SOURCE: NewsMax 1 month ago
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W.H. Sounding Alarm on Budget Deficit
  1. Well, it's going to have to come down. Now it's too high, and I think everybody understands this ... The president's very committed to bring down these deficits.
    SOURCE: NewsMax 1 month ago
  2. The better way to measure is before the recession we had deficits of $360 billion. One would hope after the recession we'd go back to that level
    SOURCE: NewsMax 1 month ago
  3. Director Orszag will discuss the state of the economy, our fiscal situation, and the administration's commitment to returning our nation to fiscal sustainability and building a new foundation for economic growth
    SOURCE: NewsMax 1 month ago
  4. The simple fact is they are in the process of growing this government at a rate that it has never been grown before.
    SOURCE: NewsMax 1 month ago
  5. How come the post-recession deficits are going to be three times higher than the pre-recession deficits?
    SOURCE: NewsMax 1 month ago
  6. Everyone wants deficit reduction. There isn't a person on my committee, on the Democratic side, that wants to have anything but a deficit-neutral bill.
    SOURCE: NewsMax 1 month ago
  7. They're using language which comes from polling and focus groups about the concern, but the substance of their action is just the opposite of their language
    Judd Gregg – Judd Gregg SOURCE: NewsMax 1 month ago
  8. You know, you got a little bit of revisionist history, a little selective memory going on, a little amnesia about how we got into this mess ... This crisis that we are digging ourselves out of came about because of the same theories, the same lax regulation, the same trickle-down economics that the othe...
    SOURCE: NewsMax 1 month ago

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