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

To: Zoltan! who wrote (126358)	2/9/2001 1:04:38 PM
From: TimbaBear	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Things changed in 1994 when they were thrown out of office. The GOP House of 1994 forward gave the surplus. I know it is probably futile to interject facts into this morass of bon homie, but here's an attempt anyway. If you read MAESTRO(might be tough because it doesn't have any pictures), on page 110 it says: "In August(1993), Clinton's deficit reduction plan passed Congress by the narrowest possible margins, 218 to 216 in the House, and 51 to 50 in the Senate, with Vice President Gore breaking the tie. Not a single Republican had voted for the plan, which cut $500 billion from the deficit over the next four years by increasing taxes and cutting some federal spending. The only real Republican support had come from Greenspan." Additionally, on page 221 the following conversation took place on Janury 4,2000: ""You know," the president said addressing Greenspan to his immediate left,"I have to congratulate you. You've done a great job in a period when there was no rulebook to look to." "Mr. President," Greenspan replied, "I couldn't have done it without what you did on deficit reduction. If you had not turned the fiscal situation around, we couldn't have had the kind of monetary policy we've had." So long as the GOP controls Congress there will be the same financial responsibility I certainly hope that's not prophetic!