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To: Alighieri who wrote (166846)	4/7/2003 3:48:17 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580018

Where are the surpluses he inherited? The same place as all the other bogus "wealth" -- flitted away into the thin air of nonexistence. Quit focusing on Clinton and start demanding more than mumbling and fear mongering from your chosen president. It is a legitimate difference of opinion. I believe Bush, with the war against Iraq, has done more to end the Palestinian conflict than any previous president. You and I could never agree on this. It is simply a matter of some people having a little more vision than others. As I've indicated here for months, liberals tend to be long on protest and short on vision. So there really isn't any point...

To: Alighieri who wrote (166846)	4/7/2003 5:36:55 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580018

Ask the sitting president...now in charge for 2+ years. Where are the surpluses he inherited? The same place they would be if Gore was president, or if Clinton was still president, or Bush Sr., or Reagan or Carter, or you, or if I was president. Combine the burst of a major stock market bubble, with the biggest terrorist attack in US history, and then the efforts to fight back with a normal cyclical recession and so on and any president would have a budget deficit. You can argue that someone who cared more about fiscal discipline would have a smaller deficit but the surplus would be gone there was no way to save it. Tim