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Deficits and Democracy--The fallacy of balanced budgets

Random Lengths News | July 13, 2012

Every Republican, from Mitt Romney on down is crying about the national debt, and the news media only amplifies the conservative mantra "the sky is falling" without ever putting it in historical perspective.

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