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This isn't to say that the size of the deficit is completely irrelevant. We've outlined why we think cutting the deficit shouldn't be Job One now, but no one can defend Reagan's and Bush's getting us into this mess in the first place. While Perot overestimates the horrors of deficit spending, it's clear that deficits do cause some problems, and that we'd be better off if the overall debt were smaller...
...matter how they feel about the relative dangers of the deficit, almost all economists would agree that now is exactly the wrong time for Perot's plan...
...Ross Perot and his supporters laud him as the candidate who's being honest with America. They say Americans are fooling themselves if they don't move immediately to pulverize the deficit...
...Perot isn't latter-day Paul Revere, here to warn us of inevitable disaster. He's more like a political version of the Maytag Man, here to repair something that doesn't yet need to be fixed...
...soveriegn." .Promised the press "letters" that will prove his points after the debate. .Admits Bush only has "commitment" from Yeltsin on ICBM missiles. .Can you say coaching? He may have overcome stiffness on the campaign trail, but last night was worse than anything from 1988. Stock Phrases .Quoted Ross Perot. .Otherwise, he managed to make Quayle sound eloquent. Did they put a metal plate in his skull in Vietnam? ."Raise your taxes..."--18 times. "Truth" or "trust--15 times ."Experience"--Four times. Family--7 times (including 2 references to gang families} .The word "change"--12 times ."Trickle-down"-- five times...