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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ColtonGang who wrote (34327)	9/2/2000 8:47:48 PM
From: kvkkc1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

David, Don't try to bs me. If you had an ounce of brains, you would know that Congress controls the purse strings. The Democrats controlled the House all 12 years and that is where all spending bills originate. The Dems also controled the Senate for most of those years. If you want to blame someone put it where it belongs. Second, the debt has increased under Clinton/Gore by $1.7 trillion. The surplus surfaced after Republicans took over control of congress. The debt incurred under Reagan resulted in peaceful resolution of a potential world war III. If you're not happy that we are free from that threat, sorry. Not to say that other threats don't exist, they just aren't currently as serious as the former Soviet Union.knc

To: ColtonGang who wrote (34327)	9/2/2000 8:52:34 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Clinton reduced nothing. He was against a balanced budget amendment from the beginning. And did next-to-nothing to support our current (relatively) better fiscal discipline. He was against Welfare reform until it was slammed down his throat by congress. And the congress routinely sent up budgets which spent less then he wanted until he finally signed them. During the eighties, I never remember hearing Tip O'neil say. "But mister President, we can't spend this much because it might bust the budget"! Tip O'neil and the Democratic congress of the 80's never saw a program they didn't want expanded, or a penny cut from any pork barrel project. They were the biggest spenders, (Until Gore) to come along in politics for decades. Al Gore now wants to spend an additional 2 TRILLION dollars on new government programs. If you're worried about deficits (which you seem to be) then you should be trumpeting the lesser spending initiatives of George W. Bush, instead of Al (socialist) Gore.