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brad delong, former clinton administration and economist at university of california didn't want to see the surplus spent on tax cuts but public investments. nevertheless he was quoted saying in 2001 it is hard to disagree with greenspan's position if our future economic growth is bright as it appears likely it will be time by the middle of this decade to do something to drastically cut the government surpluses. ten years later there is no surplus. turned out our future economic growth wasn't as bright seemed likely to be in 2001. that plus two trillion in tax cuts and a few trillion more in wars and asorted spending left us with large and growing deficits. indeed mr. greenspan now says we should let all the bush tax cuts expire. >> i think that, certainly the chairman has the right to his opinion. i think that there are those that believed in 2001 or those that believed in the 1990s that the internet was going to be something that was a bubble that would never burst. i think that you always are going to see economic cycles that move up and move down but the question of tax cuts or the