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发表于 2010-2-26 12:20 PM
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Hillary Blasts Greenspan on Debt, Says It Is a Threat to National Security
ABC News' Kirit Radia reports: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took a swipe at Alan Greenspan today, saying the former Federal Reserve chair’s “outrageous” advice led to a ballooning national debt that Clinton said is now a threat to national security.
"I served on the budget committee in the Senate, and I remember as vividly as if it were yesterday when we had a hearing in which Alan Greenspan came and justified increasing spending and cutting taxes, saying that we didn't really need to pay down the debt -- outrageous in my view," she said.
Clinton said that the US debt has hurt "our ability to protect our security, to manage difficult problems and to show the leadership that we deserve.”
"I do not like to be in a position where the United States is a debtor nation to the extent that we are,” America’s top diplomat said.
Greenspan was first appointed as Fed chairman in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan and served under four presidents, including Secretary Clinton’s husband. During President Bill Clinton term in office, Greenspan was hailed as the economic genius as the US economy expanded in the latter half of the 1990s.
Secretary Clinton did not specify which hearing she was referring to in her criticism of Greenspan today, but it would have come during President George W. Bush’s time in office.
"It breaks my heart that 10 years ago we had a balanced budget, that we were on the way of paying down the debt of the United States of America," Clinton said.
She urged lawmakers to take steps to lower the deficit, which has soared to new heights in recent years.
"We have to address this deficit and the debt of the United States as a matter of national security not only as a matter of economics," Clinton said. |
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