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We may casually talk of all sorts of new programs and 'stimulus,' but the vast trillion-dollar collective national debt and rising annual deficits will insidiously hamstring almost everything we plan to do.

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Victor Davis Hanson
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 5
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