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

To: ecommerceman who wrote (281590)	7/29/2002 10:33:04 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769668

ecommerceman, first of all. My buddies aren't rich. Most of my closest friends are middle income Americans. My best friend is a local homebuilder, my other close friends are electricians, stockbrocker, doctors, pharmacists and sailors in the Navy. Granted, they all do pretty well, especially since most own their own business, but I would never describe them as rich. If you want to talk to a rich person. Save your posts for Rich4Eagle. He claims to be a multimillionaire many times over. As to the rest of your post. Clinton had nothing to do with the budget being balanced. He whined incessantly about how much the Republicans were going to starve the elderly, starve children, and on and on if we even attempted to balance the budget. He also fought against conservatives in congress trying to pass a balanced budget amendment for years. The primary reason the budget numbers came close to being balanced, was because economic growth surprised even the spendaholics in congress...for a time that is. If the liberal Democrats truly love a balanced budget. Why don't they get onboard the balanced budget amendment train with conservatives and ride it to the next station? Thirdly, Bush is clearly putting the defense of the nation ahead of budgetary concerns. He believes we are at war, and desires most of all to bridge political divisiveness for the safety of the nation. Getting embroiled in an ugly partisan budget battle is not something he believes is in the long term best interest of the nation. It remains to be seen whether it's the smart move. His strategy is similar to Reagan's in that he saw the dismantling of the Soviet Union's sphere of influence as our top priority. We reaped the rewards of his vision in the 90's, when vast business opportunities opened up in Europe, heretofore locked behind the wall of the iron curtain. Reagan was right. I believe George W. Bush will be shown to be right as time passes. When our threats to liberty have been severely reduced. Political battles over the budget will continue. When they do, we will once again see who the tax-and-spend-aholics of the left are. I happen to remember them rather well. Hint...They start with Dashle (170 billion dollar farm subsidy leader) and end with billion dollar spendaholic Ted Kennedy. Lastly, statistics can be manipulated in all kinds of ways. But ignoring the statistics I posted and pretending they don't matter a wit, is the height of imprudence.