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Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated.
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George Will
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: May 4
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George F. Will
George Frederick Will
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