What's the History Behind the Deficit?
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The current budget deficits are the result of these massive spending efforts by the government. Some argue that the deficit spending saved the American economy from a second Great Depression. Opponents claim that we should have let the economic natural-selection prevail and allow failing institutions to fail.
Regardless, we now face the largest budget deficits in our nation's history.