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"Emmanuel Gustin" wrote:

I am being rational. The US federal government will have
to make large budget cuts over the next years, as it cannot
indefinitely sustain a 300 billion-a-year deficit.

You *do* know that a lot of that deficit came from the trashed economy
in the wake of 9/11, right? A year or so of increased revenues from
economic growth will make up for most of that, and a lot of the rest is
from one-time expenditures.

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