By Moti Bassok : Treasury: A huge deficit in 2010 could destroy us
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Title:Dogs, and Tails
Name:Arthur Gillman
City: WinnipegState: Manitoba, Canada
Economic policy is not identical with financial results. Policy, any policy, has financial (bookkeeping) implications, of course. But this is not a sound reason for allowing the bookkeeping to dominate (and perhaps subvert) policy-making. Whatever the challenges in training the dog to wag its tail acceptably, the challenges of allowing the tail to wag the dog are insuperable.