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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Alighieri who wrote (15398)3/25/2010 12:06:20 PM
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When bush took office he started life as POTUS with a ~200B surplus and the CBO's estimated that we were looking at a 10 year surplus of approx $5T...when he left office the national debt had been doubled from approx $5T to more than $10T

Liberal reality. Clinton's projected "surpluses" were money in the bank.

...so he effectively spent $10T through tax cuts, deficits, 2 wars

But it had nothing to do with the collapse of an economic bubble which GWB inherited, or the 9/11 attack on the heart of our financial district, or the worst natural disaster suffered by our country in years.

and a drug bill that will cost nearly as much as the current health care bill...not one cent of that was funded...not ONE.

This, of course, indicates just how stupid you are, Al. Medicare Part D has come in massively under budget every year thus far and likely WOULD HAVE come in at 300B over its first 10 years had the Ds not screwed it up by eliminating any element of personal responsibility in the program.

Part D will now become one more liberal train wreck of a government program. And you're not going to be able to blame it on Bush. IT IS THE DEMOCRATS PROBLEM NOW.
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