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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (300151)	8/18/2006 11:09:29 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1572749

He's no longer around to say, and even if he was I couldn't read his mind. I believe he felt he would do a better job of keeping spending down than he did, the extra spending was causing deficits and he might possibly have figured that a partial pullback of his earlier rate cuts would cut the deficit. Also I think he believed he could get some spending restraint in exchange for tax increases but that didn't work out so well. There where political and practical reasons, possibly including reasons I haven't even guessed.