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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: thames_sider who wrote (67680)10/23/2008 9:02:24 PM
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<<< "I'm assuming you accept as fact that the deficit has already ballooned in these 8 years, having started from a position of annual surplus at the turn of the century." >>>

Nope. There was no surplus at the turn of the century for starters. Every year of the Clinton Admin the Gov't continued to increase that amount it borrowed. So no matter how you slice it the deficit increased under Clinton every single year. And if it weren't for a Republican Congress the deficit would have been far larger.

And my previous answers to your LWE queries have already explained why the deficit grew under Bush. The only reasons I fault him are for his reluctance in curbing Federal spending, but instead allowing it to grow excessively.

And it will pale in comparison to Obama's plans to massively add to this out of control growth in spending.
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