Adam Smith actually said...

It was only that sort of blind notion that somehow not raising the debt ceiling was a solution to our fiscal problems that forced us into this awful, awful decision.

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He criticizes the refusal to raise the debt ceiling as a misguided solution.

07/17/2012

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