During the Clinton era we had the greatest corporate jobs growth in our lifetimes and cut back on government programs.
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Ah, an old tactic... say something everybody knows and then append to it something that sounds like it might be true, figuring they will believe that one too.
Here are the spending numbers for nondefense government programs from the Clinton years:
1993: 1,118,403
1994: 1,180,235
1995: 1,243,736
1996: 1,294,782
1997: 1,330,745
1998: 1,384,129
1999: 1,427,018
2000: 1,494,278
2001: 1,558,395
(using fiscal year 1993 as the base year, since Clinton took office in the fourth month of that fiscal year and inherited the budget which covered the rest of the year, we see over the following 8 years a federal budget which grew by $440 Billion in the nondefense areas. That is an increase of roughly 40 percent. Inflation over those same years was 22.56 percent (http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl).
Clinton cut back on defense. He did not cut back on other government programs; he increased them. |
