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Unfortunately I'm not sure #4 is always a viable option.
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But we can choose not to start wars.
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#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.
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That's greatly overstating things. There was massive real growth and productivity improvements in the 1990s. Just modern inventory management alone has reaped hundreds of billions of dollars.
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2 & 3 I agree on, and we can certainly have this conversation.
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I think we should eventually go back to the Clinton tax rates and if healthcare expense growth doesn't slow something big will have to happen there.
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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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I've certainly never said the deficit is okay, just not as important as the real crisis of unemployment.