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Philip Klein

Liberals are winning the budget debate within the Democratic Party

To liberals, instead of cutting spending, the federal government should actually be boosting spending to stimulate the economy, which, in turn, will help shrink deficits over time.

In the past week, it looks as though Democrats have migrated toward the liberal approach. On Wednesday, in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Obama warned against adopting a “crisis mentality” with the debt. (An argument that my column pushed back on.) And on Thursday, Democrats released a budget that actually increases spending on a net basis, a spending cuts are more than offset by undoing the sequester and adding $100 billion in new economic stimulus.

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It’s a liberal party. What do you expect?

rickv404 on March 15, 2013 at 6:53 PM

A balanced approach. More spending, more taxes.

forest on March 15, 2013 at 6:55 PM

Good, they’ll lose nationally then.

reddevil on March 15, 2013 at 7:27 PM

Who else would be winning? Confused.

hillsoftx on March 15, 2013 at 7:41 PM

Good. Then, we should be able to prevail.

BuckeyeSam on March 15, 2013 at 7:45 PM

To liberals, instead of cutting spending, the federal government should actually be boosting spending to stimulate the economy, which, in turn, will help shrink deficits over time.

Massive government spending worked for the Soviets, didn’t it?

It worked so well the Chinese Communists are following the model with only a few minor modifications, right?

And Wiemar Germany showed us how well printing more money to stimulate and economy works, right?

This idiocy reminds me of the solution many generals on the Western Front in WW I had to the problem presented by the the lethality of machine guns on troops charging the trenches. Just send more men to charge the trenches.

So the lefty solution to massive federal spending deficits is to just borrow and print more money for the government spend. Marx didn’t really think that in the final analysis money was worth much either. It’s only numbers on paper anyway, right? So what if a pencils costs a dollar, or ten dollars, or a hundred, or a thousand.

farsighted on March 15, 2013 at 9:05 PM

It’s “democrat” party.

tom daschle concerned on March 15, 2013 at 9:10 PM