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Article: STRONG ECONOMY CALLED HURDLE FOR DEMOCRATS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 21, 1987
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CopyrightCopyright 1987 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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In his debate with Walter Mondale during the 1984
presidential campaign, President Reagan asked the American people,
"Are you better off today than you were four years ago?"
It was a question Mondale did not want to hear. Most
Americans were better off and it would have been foolish to tell
them otherwise. So Mondale was forced to warn that prosperity was
threatened by the budget deficit, a huge mountain of debt that
might someday collapse.
Election season 1988 is still over a year away, but it is
looking increasingly likely that the Democratic nominee will be in
the same unenviable position as Mondale: trying to warn the
American people that the good times cannot last.
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