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Senate Democrats have drafted a sweeping debt-reduction plan that would slice $4 trillion from projected borrowing over the next decade

Anytime I hear a plan for "the next ten years" or "the next decade," I think of the Old Soviet Union. They had lots and lots of five year plans. Just half as long and look where it got them.

Hey Washington: budget for this year and maybe next. Any further out and you are lying and you know you are lying. Kicking the can down the road again.

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Anytime I hear a plan for "the next ten years" or "the next decade," I think of the Old Soviet Union. They had lots and lots of five year plans. Just half as long and look where it got them.

Ironic that the sentence for petty theft was a tenner in the Gulag.