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

To: Scumbria who wrote (139639)	4/20/2001 12:40:20 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Our highest priorities are economic and technological growth, and helping to promote global stability and progress. Paying off the debt is worthwhile, but further down the list.......

To: Scumbria who wrote (139639)	4/20/2001 1:00:46 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

So right, and it's a darn good thing we elected a Republican congress who was more interested in balancing the budget, than the Democrat one we had for 40 years. I remember all those dire claims Clinton predicted when he threatened to veto the Balanced Budget Amendment. "We would starve children if we balanced the budget in 7 years, I mean 8 years, I mean 9 years, I mean 10 years!" Then congress limited his spending initiatives, cut capital gains taxes which caused more revenue to come into government coffers, and effectively balanced the federal budget. If you, or any other Democrat truly believes the budget would have been balanced with a Democrat congress you're delusional. The Democrat controlled congress during Reagan and Bush's tenure and never once said. "Mr. President, we need to spend less money because of the potential debt we're running up. Tip O'neil never saw a spending program that didn't need more money, or a new one which didn't need to be invented. So, you can post a thousand times a day in an attempt to re-write history, but it won't work. Clinton will be remembered as a laughing-stock President, who after his first two disasterous years, caused the congress to shift political parties for the first time in 40 years. Then after this shift, and the demoralization he inflicted on his party, tried to convince Americans he wasn't really a radical leftist in order to stay in power. It worked reasonably well, and he was re-elected. But his fiscal policies and initiatives were controlled by congress from that point onward. Remember all the threatened shutdowns? Each time it was because Clinton wanted to spend more, not less then congress.