«He always said through the (global economic) crisis when he was running up
very substantial deficits, which would not be his preferred approach, «I'm not an ideologue, I'm a pragmatic person,»» Pothier said in an interview.
Not exact matches
Congress has made
substantial progress on
deficit reduction, but they have done it in the worst possible way, which is to say, it's been
very chaotic and damaging to confidence.
It leaves out the
very substantial contribution that 2 - 2.5 % annual growth would make to cutting the
deficit, and indeed imposes spending cuts of such a magnitude as would significantly ratchet down growth potential and risk a double - dip recession.