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To: jazusamo
For example, President Martin van Buren had to deal with the devastating Panic of 1837. So what did he do (and does it sound familiar)? He sharply cut taxes and federal spending.

While not quite nonsense, this is utterly inapplicable to today.

The federal government was a great deal smaller in the 1830s and whatever it did it was going to have minimal effect on the economy.

4 posted on 11/19/2008 9:06:23 AM PST by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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To: Sherman Logan

ping


18 posted on 11/19/2008 10:04:04 AM PST by Glacier Honey
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To: Sherman Logan

They certainly didn’t have all the entitlement programs they have today.


25 posted on 11/19/2008 1:50:14 PM PST by murron (Proud Marine Mom)
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