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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (488230)11/6/2003 12:55:02 PM
From: JakeStraw  Read Replies (1) of 769668
 
Facts -

President Clinton had never attempted to save the Social Security surplus, despite two successive State of the Union pledges to do so.

Clinton's budget proposed raiding Social Security for $40 billion next year.

Clinton also proposed raiding Social Security for $158 billion over the next five years.

It was Clinton who first proposed using the Social Security surplus to fund the recently passed supplemental appropriations bill. He sent his request to Congress without fully offsetting it, thereby setting the stage for the funds to come out of the Social Security surplus.

When making his initial calculations regarding the deployment in Kosovo, Clinton also evidently considered it acceptable for the Social Security surplus to pay for it.

Clinton has used the Social Security surplus for extra spending throughout his administration -- including funding his nationalized health care scheme in 1993-4.
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