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Agenda: One TRILLION dollars!

 

Published 1/7/2009 by Mark Murray at First Read

Cue your inner Dr. Evil voice (with pinky finger touching your lip)... Yesterday, Obama tried to prep the public for trillion-dollar deficits for years to come. The New York Times says Obama “braced Americans for the unparalleled prospect of ‘trillion-dollar deficits for years to come,’ a stark assessment of the budgetary outlook that he said would force his administration to impose tighter fiscal discipline on the government. Mr. Obama sought to distinguish between the need to run what is likely...( read more ) (link)

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