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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (14714)	10/31/2003 7:59:49 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793670

"largest budget surplus in history" The problem with this assertion is that there was no budget surplus during the Clinton Administration. Clinton & Rubin used Enron like accounting to falsely claim we had a surplus while the deficit grew every single year during the Clinton Administration. No matter how you spin it, you can't spend more than you take in & claim you have a budget surplus without smoke, mirrors & falsehoods. "then maybe I'd want to know about Clinton corruption but he didn't do that." Perhaps Clinton's campaign finance corruption, transferring advanced missile technology to China, the pardons he signed that made big bucks for his cronies & the Enron style budget surplus, ET AL, are worthy of your ire & scathing criticisms.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (14714)	10/31/2003 10:25:47 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793670

Hmmm, do I detect a change of subject? So crime only matters if it's expensive? About that foe: Does 9/11/2001 ring a bell? OBL? I take it you don't care to go into the equivalent of these matters as they apply to CLinton? I think Bush practices cronyism. That is somebody who doesn't care about the big picture, instead only focuses on his small circle of benefactors. There are countless areas where Bush policy was, shall we say, "questionable"... and when you look into it you discover an FOB stands to win. These areas are: - dividend tax cuts (helps rich people who invest in oil) - Iraq war in general (benefits oil execs and their desire to weaken opec) - contracts on iraq (halliburton, bechtel) - visa issues (Bush contributors from Intel) - appointment of Snow and other "weak" cabinetmembers (general cronyism) - SUV 100K exclusion (oil companies) Got another question: If we had a surplus, why did federal debt keep rising? infoplease.com wstera_2 raises this same point in his posts too.