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"Our long-term economic growth demands that we tame our burgeoning federal deficit, that we invest in the things we need, and dispense with the things we don't. This is a challenging agenda, but one we can and will achieve," Obama said.
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I'm no economist but is it really reasonable to expect spending 787 billion dollars we do not have (unless we borrow or print it) will "tame our burgeoning federal deficit?" Our grandfathers grieved over the debt they left us and we don't even talk that about anymore. Will the debt we leave our grandchildren be discussed the same way -- worrying about their grandchildren? The deficit, no matter how real it is, seems to have become just another distracting abstraction.
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