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> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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>> It's one thing to make a deal like this - it's another to translate it
>> into ten real annual budgets.
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> This is what I keep thinking. The "deal" isn't really much of a deal.
> Everyone got to strike the poses they wanted. But not very much seems to
> have actually happened. That upsets deficit hawks. But it also upsets people
> who want actual tax hikes, for example. And it upsets the rest of us because
> it seems to express an agreement in principle between the two parties to cut
> spending, and mainly not Pentagon spending.
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> So there isn't much, and what there is, is bad. In short.
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> Is that wrong?
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er, of course "the rest of us" will include a lot of the "want tax hikes"
people, obviously.
j