Posted on 19 November 2010. Tags: Alan Simpson, Debt, Deficit Commission, Deficits, Erskine Bowles, Hysteria, Nonsense, Social Security, Tax Cuts
Frankly, this is good news: WASHINGTON—The bipartisan commission examining how to cut the federal debt ended three days of closed-door meetings Thursday without a firm agreement among its 18 members, with several saying the panel was still at odds over how to contain the ballooning costs of health care. The Commission should just […]
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Posted on 11 November 2010. Tags: Alan Simpson, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Dean Baker, Debt, Deficits, Erskine Bowles, Hysteria, Nonsense, Social Security, Tax Cuts
I am so tired of listening to the transcribers of press conferences (people we used to call "journalists") speaking about the debt or deficit "crisis". They just regurgitate crazy, phony stuff–and the height of all this came yesterday with the release of the proposals by the co-chairmen of the Commission appointed by the president. […]
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