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Eat all the food in your cupboard. Empty your bank account to buy stuff you don't need and will never use. Max out your credit card buying more stuff you don't need, then take it to the market to buy groceries.

p>The checkout lady will tell you very quickly that deficits do matter. br> -- Martin Kelly br> Glasgow, Scotland /p>

Brian Wesbury slid a curious remark into his deficits-not-a-problem piece on Tuesday: "Running a deficit to fight a war against terrorism is an investment in protecting the freedom that creates growth."

Maybe that would be true, but that's not our deficit.

We are running a deficit to fund the welfare state. What welfare reform? Yes, the cards were shuffled and now we're being dealt a bad hand from a double deck. Home renovation subsidies. Child care subsidies. Local police subsidies to run seat belt harassment patrols. And on and on it goes. This is not what I voted for in 2000. And has it really bought the Republicans any votes, any goodwill, any friendly media coverage? Ha!

p>Bush may cruise to a big win this year but I dread 2008. And a Democrat administration in 2009 will be positioned to reap the benefits of Bush's backloaded tax cut and spend every penny of the supply-side windfall on yet more federal programs. If they run a bigger deficit, articles like Wesbury's will just provide them with cover. br> -- David Slauenwhite /p> p> HELL OF A MISS

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