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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (47791)	7/29/1999 11:47:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

>>That's right. And it went up when Reagan was in and the Democrats were controlling Congress. But Reagan gets the blame too because he signed those bills. And so does Clinton get some of the credit for the budget surplus now. Wrong. The old "Just Being There" theory of history carries no weight. It is well documented that Clinton and cronies fought the balanced budget and it was imposed by the Republican Congress following the 1994 elections and the resurgent Perot threat. Like Welfare Reform, Clinton only signed on as integral for his campaign to fool the US public; and it worked once again with the ignorant plurality who re-elected him in 1996. Sure, there were deficits during the Reagan years, mostly because the Dems refused to implement previously agreed social spending cuts - they actually increased such spending. As for today's surplus, that is a consequence of the Great Boom that began in 1982, (The "Great Boom" started in 1982 and endures to this day, despite the worst efforts of Clinton and cronies. Clinton's only mark on economic history was the retrospectively needless 1993 tax increase), and The Reagan Peace Dividend, which will pay off the 1980's deficits many times over. Except for scandal and the lowering of public mores, and those are big exceptions, Clinton is an inconsequential liar-president who did nothing other than get caught with his pants down and survive in office as our supreme demagogue. Clinton made the White House his house, the "Home of the 24hr Whopper". People have had it with Clinton/Bore and that's why Bush enjoys a 15-25% lead. People may not know what they want, but they are certain they don't want a reprise of the last 8 years of government by lie and corruption.