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

To: Bill who wrote (706999)	10/12/2005 10:41:47 AM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Bill Clinton was President the last time the federal govt ran a surplus.

To: Bill who wrote (706999)	10/12/2005 11:11:45 AM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I might also add that Clinton proposed using the surplus to pay down the accumulated deficit. George Bush wouldn't even consider that - all he wanted were tax cuts. Now we have a massive deficit which George blames on everything but his tax cuts. Yup. I'm a waffler. I'm conservative on some issues but liberal on others and realistic on issues that cross. Since these boards are dominated by fringe elements from both sides I kind of tick everyone off. Let me give you an example. Like conservatives, I don't want a federalized health care plan. However, I see health insurance costs climbing out of control and administrative costs eating up 30% of our health care expenditures. 50 million Americans are without coverage - and when they get sick I'm going to wind up paying one way or the other. I see GM spending more for health insurance than for steel and I see auto plants moving across the border to Ontario because the Canadian health care system takes business out of the health care racket. Government in one way or another pays the health care for almost 40% of Americans now anyway. So, bite the bullet and adopt a federal single payer system to cover everyone and impose a sales tax to pay for it. Conservatives hate the idea but don't offer a solution to the crisis - they don't even consider it a crisis. Liberals hate the idea because I'm approaching it from a "big business" position and it don't tax the "rich" to pay for it. To both sides I'm a waffler.