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The Mad Hatter's Tea Party

Random Lengths News | February 25, 2011

There is a simple underlying fact that seems to be missing in all of this talk about deficit spending––something that you can check out for yourselves without having to take my word for it––the federal budget has only been in balance or had a surplus 24 of the last 110 years.

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