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Submitted by secretfire on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 10:58
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Five Budgetary Realities no Politician Will Talk About (Not even Ron Paul) - the economist is apparently a libertarian who used to work for the Federal Reserve.

Opinions? Thoughts from more elder members of the community?

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2012/0214/Five-budget-real...


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No mention of the savings from restricting federal spending to

Submitted by bytejockey on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 11:54.

what is specifically authorized in the Constitution, or savings from eliminating foreign aid and global policing,
or the benefits of having a sound fiscal and monetary policy.

Does a fair job of evaluating the magnitude of the deficit and debt problems faced, but comes up short when evaluating the solutions proposed by Ron Paul.

At best an "incomplete".