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"In the long run we can't continue to spend as if deficits don't have consequences, as if waste doesn't matter, as if the hard earned tax dollars of the American people can be treated like monopoly money...."
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What sort of mind-set needs to preface this statement with "in the long run" as if this sort of deficit spending and waste is quite acceptable "in the short run"?
In politico speak, "in the long run" means "for the next administration".