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comradebillyboy

(10,155 posts)
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 07:55 PM Feb 2016

The Sanders Campaign Thinks It Can Give Us 5 Percent Economic Growth. It’s Deluded

From Slate..." Liberal policy wonks have generally been, shall we say, a bit cold on Bernie Sanders, especially when it comes to his plan for creating a single-payer health care system, which they've criticized as undercooked and unrealistic. But hostilities escalated this week when four former chief White House economic advisers issued a harsh open letter accusing the Vermont senator of embracing “extreme claims” about how his policy ideas would boost American growth and of sullying Democrats’ entire reputation for caring about “responsible arithmetic.” The spreadsheet-wielding wing of the party has basically declared that the Sanders campaign is deluded about economics."
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/02/18/the_sanders_campaign_is_living_in_an_economic_fantasy_world.html

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The Sanders Campaign Thinks It Can Give Us 5 Percent Economic Growth. It’s Deluded (Original Post) comradebillyboy Feb 2016 OP
Thank you, comradebillboy! Cha Feb 2016 #1
Economics Aside, DeeBunker Feb 2016 #2
 

DeeBunker

(29 posts)
2. Economics Aside,
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 02:55 AM
Feb 2016

Cost of Living & Doing Business Too Damn High! Inflation Theme Capitalism No Longer Sustainable, 'Sides Planet Can't No Longer Take it! Wall St will put itself outta biz in time..

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