"I believe we should work together to build ..."

That's the excellent first half of a sentence President Obama should never have ruined with this ending: " ... on on the more than $2.5 trillion in deficit reduction we’ve already achieved." No, Mr. President: every additional penny in deficient reduction hurts the economy you claim you're trying to improve and the middle class you claim you're trying to save.

No, congressional repugs won't approve the trillion dollars in stimulus through a deficit increase, but they won't approve anything else that will prevent a Great Depression. So tell Ben Bernanke to crank up the presses and churn out the cash that will avoid an austerity apocalypse.



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