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jleyank on Jan 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Deficit Reduction

There's the rub. The money's NOT THERE... The US is spending what it doesn't have, and has to stop doing that...

seabee on Jan 16, 2011 [–]

It's not about money being there or not, government budgets don't work like that. It's about saddling the next generation with more and more debt. It's trading the future for short term gains.

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