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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: BT on July 28, 2010, 07:30:03 PM
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A Spending Goal Too Small for America
Matt Miller, Washington Post
I don't want to overreact. I'd hate to prematurely diss President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, which held its fourth public meeting Wednesday. But the commission's Democratic co-chair, Erskine Bowles, may have already blown it.In little-noticed remarks a few weeks ago, Bowles suggested that the long-term goal the commission should adopt for federal spending should be 21 percent of gross domestic product. This sounds like a bookkeeping matter. But Bowles' goal would end progressive ambition, ratify America's declining...
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/07/28/a_spending_goal_too_small_for_america_238536.html