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  How Would You Cut the Deficit?

  

  By TheWildeOne, Mendham, NJ

  Could you figure out a realistic way to create a surplus of $418 billion in this country by 2015? I just did, using the New York Times’ budget puzzle. Using this interactive, online feature, you have the opportunity to choose how you would end the deficit and see the direct results of your acti...
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  Congress: The Soap Opera Continues

  

  By TheWildeOne, Mendham, NJ

  America has become a hostage of our congress--of the party squabbles and the blame game. These people aren’t even acting like statesmen anymore. They remind me of a relationship on a soap opera. Let’s call the Republicans Randy and the Democrats Dianne. Randy and Dianne have some major pro...