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Adam Smith: “It was only that sort of blind notion that somehow not raising the debt ceiling was a solution to our fiscal problems…”

On the recordJuly 17, 2012
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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Adam Smith
Democratic · Washington

Editor's note · Context

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

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