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Obama campaign seizes on Greenspan's tax comments
Reuters ^ | Sat Sep 13, 2008 | By Caren Bohan

Posted on 09/13/2008 7:25:30 PM PDT by boroman

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign on Saturday seized on comments from former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who questioned the affordability of broad new tax cuts.
Greenspan told Bloomberg News he was "not in favor of financing tax cuts with borrowed money" when asked if the United States could afford big tax cuts such as those proposed by Republican John McCain.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: economicpolicy; greenspan; mccainpalin; obamabiden; taxes
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To: ZULU

Why doesn’t the media ever report on the fact that Greenspan was unelected, and yet had more direct influence over the economy than anyone in Cogress or the White House? When will the American people wake up and realize that modern inflation and the boom-bust cycle started after the birth of the federal reserve system?


41 posted on 09/13/2008 8:59:51 PM PDT by Tublecane
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Greenspan? Sounds like a democrat name. And isn't he married to Andrea Mitchell, the Obama campaign staffer who plays a reporter on TV?
42 posted on 09/13/2008 9:27:23 PM PDT by Godwin1
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To: rod1
Gee isn't that shocking news from Mr Andrea “ Obama “ Mitchell !!
43 posted on 09/13/2008 9:46:32 PM PDT by ncalburt
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To: Tublecane

“When will the American people wake up and realize that modern inflation and the boom-bust cycle started after the birth of the federal reserve system?”

Myths die hard, especially when supported by the left-wing media.


44 posted on 09/14/2008 5:22:05 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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