Agreed. Even economists who normally push for deficit reduction agree that now isn't the time to do it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/business/economy/20cost.html

Quote:

“Right now would not be the time to balance the budget,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan Washington group that normally pushes the opposite message.

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