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

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (292627)	9/3/2002 5:32:16 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

<<First of all, there was no budget surplus as reported by the General Accounting Office, the Clinton administration was cooking the books like Enron to fool the American people into believe the economy was doing just fine even when it was not... it was all done with trickery, smoke, and mirrors during the Clinton administration...>> Where's your evidence of book-cooking? You forget it was Clinton who urged us to view these surplus projections with caution. It took Bush in a speech that Ken Lay could've written to sell us the snake-oil of these endless surpluses: Remember this? My budget has funded a responsible increase in our ongoing operations, it has funded our Nation's important priorities, it has protected Social Security and Medicare, and our surpluses are big enough that there is still money left over. Many of you have talked about the need to pay down our national debt. I have listened, and I agree. My budget proposal pays down an unprecedented amount of public debt. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to act now, and I hope you will join me to pay down $2 trillion in debt during the next 10 years. At the end of those 10 years, we will have paid down all the debt that is available to retire. That is more debt repaid more quickly than has ever been repaid by any nation at any time in history. We should also prepare for the unexpected, for the uncertainties of the future. We should approach our Nation's budget as any prudent family would, with a contingency fund for emergencies or additional spending needs. For example, after a strategic review, we may need to increase defense spending, we may need additional money for our farmers, or additional money to reform Medicare And so my budget sets aside almost a trillion dollars over 10 years for additional needs -- that is one trillion additional reasons you can feel comfortable supporting this budget. We have increased our budget at a responsible 4 percent, we have funded our priorities, we have paid down all the available debt, we have prepared for contingencies -- and we still have money left over. Steve