Edwards responded, "We have a plan to clean up this mess we're in, in Iraq, " which drew applause from the program's New York audience.
And he recently proposed to Congress a plan that even the Republican analysts who looked at the evidence, as opposed to the rhetoric, say will add between 1.5 and 2 percent to our GDP and help us to get out of this mess we're in and enable America to help the world again.
But this downturn, this economic mess we're in, could be your chance.
We didn't create this mess, but we are here to help clean it up.
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So you can choose the top-down policies that got us into this mess, or we can choose the policies that are going to keep on getting us out of this mess.
We cannot re-regulate the banks that got ourselves into this economic mess unless we do so internationally.
Instead of moving the workers into either training or other jobs (service or manufacturing) when this mess started, we've had to wait until 2005.
So the defense is we got into this mess in large part because of people who cut corners, and we're not going to cut corners as it relates to protecting American workers.
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But I'm glad we made this big, beautiful mess and everyone's on it because it's a really nice representation of where we've been for the last few years.
Fascinating discussion of how we got into this mess - and whether the right lessons had any chance of being learned.
But isn't consumer spending or overspending how we got into this mess?
We have a Congress right now, Republicans in Congress right now, who seem to have entirely forgotten how we got into this mess.
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But more significantly, the writer totally missed why we got in this mess, acting as if everything was fine before the housing bubble burst.
It made a lot of people forget how we got into this mess in the first place, just sitting there and saying no to everything.
They seem to have forgotten how we got into this mess.
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But simply saying no over and over and over again, keeping the rules of the road in place, leads you to where we were when we got into this mess.
And taking us back to those kinds of strategies that got us into this mess are not the way that we are going to maintain leadership in the 21st century.
For the last few years, the Republicans who run this Congress have insisted that we go right back to the policies that created this mess in the first place.
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If we all wait for the other person to invest we will stay in this mess.
Which brings us to the other question: How do we get out of this mess?
The FBI wants to know how we got into this financial mess and whether the cause was simply greed or whether laws were broken.
If we had done this with bisphenol A, we would not be in the scientific mess we are now in, , because ultimately the truth will win.
But even as we dig our way out of this deep hole, it's important that we not lose sight of what led us into this mess in the first place.
But how did we get into this real estate mess in the first place?
The irony, which seems to have been lost on Washington, is that an artificially low cost of capital (created by lenders who lost sight of risk management) got us into this mess in the first place, and now we're considering returning to easy money to get us out of it.
Whatever we come up with, voters have a right to be sure that we never get into this kind of mess again.
They want to roll back Wall Street reform so that we end up with the same financial system we had that got us into this mess in the first place.
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