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Skriven 2007-05-07 23:19:36 av Josh Hill (549.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: OT: a proposal for increasing teachers' salaries
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On Mon, 07 May 2007 16:45:27 GMT, Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>In article <ucgs33ln1c90veb5bruhbj2a0nlbra9776@4ax.com>,
> Josh Hill <usereplyto@gmail.com> wrote:
>>to balanced budgets is always taking more, never spending less.
>>=20
>> And the Repubs answer is taking less, and never spending less. Which
>> leads to some rather obvious difficulties.
>     =20
>      No more so than taking more and spending more. Look at France's=20
>economy if you need any kind of notion of that.   As much as it goes=20
>against much of what I hold dear, I think we HAVE to have a balanced=20
>budget amendment just because we can't trust either side.=20

I'm not convinced. For one thing, a deficit can be economically and
militarily beneficial, even necessary. (IIRC, the balanced budget
amendment did include provisions for exceptions -- I don't remember
the details). For another, I question whether the problem is as
serious as some make it out to be. The budget came into balance under
Clinton. Bush pushed the deficit above the levels recommended by
economists, but the next election should fix that (albeit I don't envy
the president who has to take the rap for a previous president's
recklessness as Bush's father did). If elections can do the job, why
change the Constitution?

Far off, staring at us -- a liquidity crunch brought on by too-rapid
globalization and deindustrialization. I fear that more than I fear
the inflationary consequences of the Federal debt.
      =20
> Me, I vote for doing the things we have to do, and having government
>> do them if government can best do them, and paying for them out of
>> taxes to the extent that economics says we should.
>
>  Whose economists. YOu take all the economists in the world and line=20
>them up end-to-end and they still wouldn't reach a conclusion. Ain't=20
>called the dismal science for nothin'.

You try to choose the smart ones.

--=20
Josh

"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths,
and how many, what day it=92s going to happen, and=20
how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean,
it=92s, it=92s not relevant. So, why should I waste my=20
beautiful mind on something like that?" - Barbara Bush
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