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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Tim Pawlenty is more honest than most:
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I'm not sure that is more honest. To me, he was saying, "I want to use people's over-inflated sense of our current budget difficulties (which are mostly caused by (1) weak revenues resulting from a weak economy, (2) two wars, (3) automatic stabilizers, and (4) one time stimulus spending and tax cuts) as an excuse to cut safety net programs that I oppose but won't admit that I oppose in public because that is political suicide."
In other words, the current deficit and the longer-term projected issues that social security and medicare will create because of demographics really are not related to one another.
