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Saturday, June 24, 2017

How Trump's Budget Reveals The Radical Breach Between What People "Want" And "Reality"

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Paul Krugman Says Growth Rate Will Not Reach 3% (Which Is The GOP's Budgetary Supposition)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-03-01/economist-paul-krugman-doesn-t-see-return-to-3-growth

Trump Budget Relies On 3 Percent Economic Growth. Is It Realistic?
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/22/533909736/is-it-realist-trump-budget-relies-on-3-percent-economic-growth


Alan: Most people believe what they want to believe. 

Not many humans submit their judgments to the prior screen of provable data, facts and information. 

Consequently, the breach between "political presumption" and "facts on the ground" is always wide.

And in the current zeitgeist -- with opinion trumping truth -- there is vanishingly little hope of near-term realism.

Americans Think Foreign Aid Consumes 1/3rd Of GNP. This % Is Totally Hallucinated




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