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

To: Bill who wrote (158387)	7/6/2001 3:57:59 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

the national debt was increasing during Clinton's tenure as well publicdebt.treas.gov

To: Bill who wrote (158387)	7/6/2001 4:03:47 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

It would be fine. It would save us all a lot. When a poor person without insurance comes to an emergency room with a disease that hasn't been treated we all pay the maximum amount. The preventative medicine is a lot cheaper. Pennies instead of dollars. And maybe the person dies. And it could be a child so it's really hard-hearted. Multiply this example times 10,000,000 and you get the point. And if you're denying Clinton is the only president to pay down the debt instead of adding to it (like Bush is again) you're in denial. Make all the excuses you want but it's fact. The surplus is also Clinton's, it's enormousand Bush is already squandering it at record speed. Much of it will end up in the bank accounts of the very rich and his special interest cronies. Think how much extra the federal government spent on energy in the last 6 months. All into Texan pockets. Biggest scandal since Reagan's S+L debacle. Think how much the very rich will save on estate taxes. Not that I'm against some tax cuts but even now Bush is realizing the folly of his ways, that we simply can't afford it without sacrificing either necessary programs in Medicare, SS, the military or all of the above.