Why We Should Stop Obsessing About The Federal Budget Deficit

(Before It's News)

I wish President Obama and the Democrats would explain to the nation that the federal budget deficit… Robert Reich

This is from Robert Reich’s blog, www.robertreich.org. He is professor of public policy at Berkeley, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, and author of 13 books, the most recent of which is “Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future.”

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