<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">It's from Paul O'Neil's (Bush's first Treasury Secretary) book <span style="font-style: italic;">The Price of</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Loyalty</span>. here's a quote from a review:<br><br><p>
In another meeting, this one on tax policy, Vice President Cheney
-- depicted as the power behind the throne of a disengaged and clueless
president -- proposed a 50 percent cut in the individual tax on
dividends. Mr. O'Neill says he ''jumped in, arguing sharply that the
government 'is moving toward a fiscal crisis,' '' pointing out ''what
rising deficits will mean to our economic and fiscal soundness.'' </p>
But Mr. Cheney was uninterested in such goo-goo concerns, Mr.
O'Neill recounts, quoting him: ''Reagan proved deficits don't matter. We
won the midterms. This is our due.'' Mr. O'Neill professes he left Mr.
Cheney's office ''in a state of mild shock.'' He knew Mr. Rove and
others believed this ideology, but ''to hear it from the vice president
seemed to stop the world turning. The inscrutable Dick had finally shown
himself.'' <br><div> </div>Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA<div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> lfalen <lfalen@turbonet.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com>; Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, April 22, 2011 11:10:46 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Say What?<br></font><br>
My guess is that this is misleading. How about supplying the context in which it was made?<br>Roger<br>-----Original message-----<br>From: "Tom Hansen" <a ymailto="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a><br>Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:24:38 -0700<br>To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <a ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>Subject: [Vision2020] Say What?<br><br>> "Reagan taught us that deficits dont matter.<br>> <br>> - Former Vice President Dick Cheney<br>> <br><span>> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/weekender-the-trouble-with-modern-monetary-theory-mmt-2011-1">http://www.businessinsider.com/weekender-the-trouble-with-modern-monetary-theory-mmt-2011-1</a></span><br>> <br>> -------------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> Seeya round town, Moscow.<br>> <br>> Tom Hansen<br>> Moscow,
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