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

To: Scumbria who wrote (154886)	6/22/2001 6:17:05 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 769670

Once again you elected to change the subject entirely. Your original belief was that Clinton balanced the budget. Going so far as to claim it was his "Balanced Budget Act" or some other such disingenuous term, which made it happen. The plain fact is Clinton had no intention of balancing the budget, and even went so far as to claim the sky was going to fall if Republicans tried to balance the budget within ten years. Republicans passed their budget anyway and slowed the growth of government spending substantially beyond what Clinton wanted. Time and time again, Clinton proposed far more spending than the Republicans allowed, and time and time again, Clinton had to throttle back his deficit spending initiatives and accept the Republican fiscally responsible budgets. Therefore, you've practically proven my point for me that Clinton had virtually nothing to do with balancing the budget. He was there and signed what he was forced to sign, while fighting against fiscally sanity tooth-and-nail.