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If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

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Alice Rivlin

The 'American dream'. . . means an economy in which people who work hard can get ahead and each new generation lives better than the last one. The 'American dream' also means a democratic political system in which most people feel they can affect public decisions and elect officials who will speak for them. In recent years, the dream has been fading.

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Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.

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most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.

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The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.

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One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good estimates, [Congress] values having a credible institution that they can rely on to give them the best estimates possible.

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