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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (103260)	2/5/2009 5:09:41 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 542059

Clinton was able to balance the budget and was heading toward record surpluses before handing power over to Bush. The important distinction is that Clinton (and the congress at the time) didn't massively add to spending the way Bush (and congress) did. If Obama wants to follow Clinton's example then he should contain spending. Bush went wild with military spending Maybe, but spending was raised a lot more in other areas. It might be more accurate to simply say "Bush went wild with spending". To be fair to him a lot of that increase was entitlement spending, which he couldn't hope to stop, but a lot of it was not. Now that we are in this huge mess and there are people suggesting that we balance the budget (in part) by not giving out food stamps. Almost no one is suggesting the budget should be balanced right now, or that we should stop giving out food stamps.

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