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As CBO puts it, in its projections, “large budget deficits would arise because spending would grow steadily under current law, and revenues would not keep pace with that spending growth.”3 In other words, the story of the growing debt is
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“Everything you’ve said is true. It’s hard, and it’s awful, and it’s how things happened. The past is no longer in motion. There’s nothing for you to do but accept it. Only now did Bell realize that, to him, acceptance had meant something too close to “surrender.” That wasn’t it at all. Acceptance was strength. It was being able to carry the weight of what had been, and what had not, through all the many days, months, years, and decades to follow.”
― The Fallen Star
― The Fallen Star
“Indeed, with words. Form an opinion, say it often enough and pretty soon everyone’s saying it right back at you, and then it becomes a conviction, fed by unreasoning anger and defended with weapons of fear. At which point, words become useless and you’re left with a fight to the death.’ Karsa grunted. ‘A fight beyond death, I would say.’ ‘True enough. Generation after generation.”
― The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen
― The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen
J’s 2024 Year in Books
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