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patrice

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3. Alike or not, does that establish that the U.S. economy can't, in it's own way, get so far out of

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Thu May 24, 2012, 05:44 PM

May 2012

balance that continued and increasing military budgets could at least make it worse?

I'm not an economist, so describing just exactly how that could happen exceeds my abilities, but are you saying it's impossible?

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