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In reply to the discussion: Howard Dean is on This Week (ABC) is a deficit hawk [View all]cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)27. Dean is, on the economy, a fool
Everything he has had to say about the "cliff" has been deeply dumb.
I have heard him say, with my own ears, that if the cliff caused a recession it would be okay because we would come out of it stronger because the deficit would be smaller.
Incredible ignorance.
I am glad he is not president.
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I think Dean has an understanding that our economy and fiscal policies are in trouble.
Hoyt
Dec 2012
#5
You can't fill the hole that exists now by taxing the 2%, or even taking everything they have.
Hoyt
Dec 2012
#29
Is there *one* national figure whom DUers have not thrown under the bus at one time or another?
Cirque du So-What
Dec 2012
#9
No. But nice try. If Mrs. Blankfein were running Goldman Sachs I would
Guy Whitey Corngood
Dec 2012
#22
I think that the only damage done will be to those whose taxes will go higher...
fadedrose
Dec 2012
#41