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Fat Years and Lean: Keynsian Fiscal Policy Explained for Religious Conservatives

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Instead, we doubled our national debt during the years that led to this
deep economic recession. The time of irresponsibility is not now,
when the economy needs to be fed from the government "graineries," but
rather in the fat years, when we should have been storing up in the
national treasury during the economic expansion so we'd have the
resources saved, as Pharoah did, to get us through the time when the
harvest of our economy was poor.

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