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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JakeStraw who wrote (332)	10/29/2003 5:17:09 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 90947

PLEASE Jake!! You trying to give FrenchyAS a heart attack?....you better quit posting the truth, it will kill AS.

To: JakeStraw who wrote (332)	10/29/2003 6:02:07 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

During the Clinton era we had the greatest corporate jobs growth in our lifetimes and cut back on government programs. Message 18418068 Ah, an old tactic... say something everybody knows and then append to it something that sounds like it might be true, figuring they will believe that one too. Here are the spending numbers for nondefense government programs from the Clinton years: 1993: 1,118,403 1994: 1,180,235 1995: 1,243,736 1996: 1,294,782 1997: 1,330,745 1998: 1,384,129 1999: 1,427,018 2000: 1,494,278 2001: 1,558,395 (using fiscal year 1993 as the base year, since Clinton took office in the fourth month of that fiscal year and inherited the budget which covered the rest of the year, we see over the following 8 years a federal budget which grew by $440 Billion in the nondefense areas. That is an increase of roughly 40 percent. Inflation over those same years was 22.56 percent (http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl). Clinton cut back on defense. He did not cut back on other government programs; he increased them.