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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: American Spirit who wrote (59772)11/5/2000 6:48:40 PM
From: Joseph F. Hubel  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
Some what you say is so disingenuous and disrespectful of the facts. Clinton was lying before he ever was elected. He campaigned on a middle class a tax cut with no intention of ever granting it. Once in office he reneged and put through a huge tax increase. He then embarked a slew of new spending programs.

The face of Congress changed in 1992 with a Republican platform of smaller government, welfare reform and fiscal responsibility. The stunning Republican victory forced Clinton to rethink his spending and made program increases impossible to pass. Although Newt and some others bumbled the momentum, spending was reduced and welfare reform was passed. Clinton fought it all the way and now Gore wears it like a robe. What we ended with was increased tax revenue and reduced spending. That equals SURPLUS.

Surely you are not going to claim you forgot all the wrangling that went on including the shutdown. I also find it difficult to believe you forgot the debates on program funding. Clinton & Co. reverted to their usual scare tactics when they ballyhooed on how the Republicans were cutting spending! Little babies and the old were going to starve and go without medical care, schools and hospitals were going to close; on and on it went. In fact Congress was only attempting to reduce the amount of annual INCREASE. I don't know where you were but I followed it all very closely, disappointed Congress accomplished so little of their original agenda while getting caught in all the Newt crap. Any other spin is pure sewage.

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