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peggysue2

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10. Beating Jeb? Projections
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 12:33 PM
Feb 2016

Per capita GDP growth rate at 4.5% is higher than Jeb?s projected 4% GDP growth rate, deemed unrealistic by economists last year. Guess Saint Bernard needed to up the ante.

More damning is the recent analyses that finds Hillary's criticism of a 40% growth in government under the Saint Bernard program actually too conservative. Sanders would expand the government 50% with not the original $15 trillion price tag but a whopping $20+ trillion cost.

Not going to happen. Which proves?

It's easier to rant about things than to get the real numbers to work.

As I said in an earlier thread, numbers are curious, stubborn things. You can corral and hide them for a while. But they always manage to wriggle free. If you haven't respected the cost-side of your Big Ideas then you're spitting in the wind and taking people for a disappointing ride into fantasyland.

HILLARY 2016
'I am not a one issue candidate . . ."

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