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To: Sam the Sham

you obviously have no clue what so ever what caused inflation in the 1970s and why it is impossible for it to happen again.


160 posted on 04/24/2006 8:27:42 PM PDT by georgia2006
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To: georgia2006

What nonsense you talk !

Try to combine.
1. A major war.
2. A full employment economy.
3. A massive increase of government programs (like Medicare and the War on Poverty)

And what do you get ?

INFLATION.

LBJ's economic advisers flatly warned him that if he did not raise taxes there would be inflation. He refused because he feared it would undermine support for the Vietnam War. The oil price shocks simply made a bad situation worse.


163 posted on 04/24/2006 8:31:24 PM PDT by Sam the Sham (A conservative party tough on illegal immigration could carry California in 2008)
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