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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (116714)3/6/2008 10:23:30 AM
From: miraje  Read Replies (2) of 173976
 
Clinton was the beneficiary of the reduction of the huge deficits that Reagan built up.

Once again, Presidents do not spend, Congress does. Why is that such a hard concept for you to grasp?

Once again, Clinton had a GOP Congress which, for a time, put a lid on runaway government spending. Ms Hilly, in case you don't remember, tried (with Billy's blessing) to ram a hugely expensive, budget busting national health scheme down the country's throat. Thanks to some sanity exemplified by Next and his GOP cohorts, that disaster went nowhere.

Reagan, in case you don't remember, had a solidly Democrat Congress which had no desire to exercise fiscal restraint.

Take off your partisan blinders and try to look at history objectively. Clinton wasn't a saint and Reagan wasn't the devil. Or the reverse. Presidents propose budgets but Congress accepts, rejects, or modifies them as it sees fit..
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