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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (55108)	7/1/1999 3:11:00 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 67261

There's a hole in the bucket dear Willy, dear Willy, these's a hole in the bucked dear Willy a hole: Clinton's charade Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, South Carolina Democrat, is happy this week to label President Clinton a liar. Mr. Hollings says he "awoke with a shock" three days ago to see the elated Mr. Clinton parading around the Rose Garden with $1 trillion that materialized out of nowhere. Shocked, the senator says, for good reason. You see, four years ago, in 1995, Mr. Hollings vowed to "jump off the Capitol Dome" if the budget was balanced by the year 2002. And here it is June 1999, and he's watching Mr. Clinton declare victory. "I said to myself, it looks as if I am going to have to jump off the dome, because they found another $1 trillion," Mr. Hollings recalls. Until Tuesday. "I felt that way until I picked up the president's document," he says, "the budget of the U.S. government that they gave us today, hot off the press. Turn to page 42," he says. There you "will see the [national debt] in 1998 at the end of September was $5.478 trillion," he says. Staying on page 42, the senator points out that over the next five years the total gross federal debt "goes to $6.298 trillion." "The federal debt by the year 2002 that I was worried about has already increased some $400 billion," he says. "By the year 2004, it has increased from the 1999 deficit $551.1 billion. "The debt is going up half a trillion, and everybody is talking surplus," he continues. "That is totally dismaying to this particular senator. It is a shabby game and a fraud that we play on the American public. "The only entity to keep us honest is the free press," he says, adding on second thought: "They join in the fraud." Welcome back from the land of Nod Fritz you old sleepy head. washtimes.com