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To: JohnM who wrote (54314)	7/14/2004 9:38:52 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793895

I guess our 100 word responses to each other show just how much we see the world differently.

To: JohnM who wrote (54314)	7/15/2004 6:22:20 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793895

Thanks for the thoughtful reply, Bill. I haven't been reading the thread this week but I have been scanning the headers. Saw the word, thoughtful, and I perked up. Yes, thanks to both of you. I was sorry to see the subject dropped so quickly.

To: JohnM who wrote (54314)	7/15/2004 7:05:09 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793895

Hi John, it's interesting the way you generalize events and remember them under a shielded viewpoint. I suppose we all do that to one level or another. Let's take a look at your first statement, "the choice is Clinton's fiscal policies". The truth is Clinton really had no fiscal policies. His first two years were a playbook of past failed policies of raising taxes and attempting to socialize one of our largest industries, health care. If raising taxes and shifting more industries under the control of government is considered a fiscal policy, than I suppose most European governments and everyone on the left has a good one. Taking more and more money away from hard-working Americans doesn't empower them and increase freedom, mostly it seeks to accomplish just the opposite. After the first two years, Clinton had to react to the conservatives who swept the election. Often, he marginalized their approach to fiscal disciple by consistently seeking to spend more than the Congress or Senate wanted. He believed we couldn't balance the budget without "starving the elderly", "starving children" and so forth. The attempt to rewrite history on this score never ceases to amaze me. The economy succeeded under Clinton's watch, mainly, because he was President while American entrepreneurs ushered in the "internet age" ahead of the rest of the world. Something Clinton and "I created the Internet" Al Gore had absolutely nothing to do with it. The biggest credit for that success goes to a bunch of kids at the University of Illinois who created the fist browser, and made available what was once the purview of a few academics, available to the masses. Michael