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It is remarkable how the Washington Post (a.k.a. Fox on 15th) cannot write a story on the budget deficit without feeling the need to editorialize. Today’s piece referred to the “the swollen national debt.”
Real newspapers would have just called it “the national debt.” However, the Post could not resist the opportunity to push their editorial line pushing the need for deficit reduction.