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Re: “Learn how Dr. Carson will heal America” [Letter, Village News, July 9, 2013]

The subject letter appears to be an opening salvo in the nascent 2016 Political Campaign. Dr. Carson will be touting his position of NOT being an “insider”. Regardless, he's in lock-step with the Tea Party Balanced Budget party line. Yes, they want to balance the budget: on the backs of the middle class remnant still standing and the backs of the burgeoning poor class. Budget would be a non-issue, were it not for the horrendous national debt run up by former Republican Presidents.

Where were these balanced budget people when G.W. Bush was in office, doubling the national debt right under their very own noses? Paul O'Neil, then Secretary of the Treasury, tried to warn VP Dick Cheney that growing budget deficits, expected to top $500 billion that fiscal year alone, posed a threat to the economy. Cheney's retort: “You know, Paul, Reagan proved that deficits don't matter.” O'Neill was forced to resign: deficit problem solved, GOP style.

And surely these people must know of President Reagan's exploits. Reagan did pull our country out of a recession – nearly tripling the national debt while doing so. He showed that a nation actually can spend its way out of a recession; but talk about massive overkill!

In summary, Dr. Carson appears to agree with the Tea Party that deficits do matter – when a Democrat is President.

If necessary, I'll be back to skewer Dr. Carson's pelvic politics.

John H Terrell

 

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