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Peterson's Deficit "Budgetball": The Fountainhead Meets Death Race 2000

"Budgetball is an innovative sport that combines fiscal strategy and physical play."
- Budgetball Rulebook, "Pass the Ball - Not The Buck"

Billionaire Pete Peterson is funding an elaborate campaign to convince a nation with more than 15 million unemployed citizens that the most urgent crisis we face today is not unemployment ... or poverty, or inadequate healthcare, or the decimation of the middle class. He's already created a "news service" to propagate his ideas - the Washington Post outsourced its financial reporting to him - and hosted a "deficit summit" headlined by the same people that got us into the mess we're in today. (Greenspan? Rubin? That's not called a "summit." It's called "rounding up the usual suspects.")

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