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Old 12-11-2013, 02:53 PM   #22138
gstelmack
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Originally Posted by flere-imsaho View Post
Look, if you want to reduce and/or eliminate the debt, you're going to need to:

1. Spur growth and keep the economy strong
2. Raise revenue
3. Cut spending, especially spending with questionable ROI
4. Avoid decisions that create massive mandatory expenditures (like wars)

Unfortunately I'm not sure #4 is always a viable option. #1 I'm not sure how you actually do, again the last time our economy was "strong" turned out to be mostly a sham of illegal accounting tricks.

2 & 3 I agree on, and we can certainly have this conversation.

But we've got you and others going "the deficit is okay", and that's where I think Jim and myself and others have a big problem.
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