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Staying on Bush's CourseHere's some straight talk: McCain's fiscal program is either a joke or a fantasy.

By Daniel GrossPosted Friday, March 28, 2008, at 2:56 PM ET

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Correction, March 31, 2008: This article originally misstated that the 2009 budget projected receipts of $2.7 billion. The correct figure is $2.7 trillion. (Return to the corrected sentence.)

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Daniel Gross is the Moneybox columnist for Slate and the business columnist for Newsweek. You can e-mail him at and follow him on Twitter. His latest book, Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation, has just been published in paperback.
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