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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (50607)	2/26/2008 2:23:42 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541780

How am I underestimating Clinton in that last post? I said that he and the Republican congress together exercised the greatest amount of fiscal discipline in recent decades. My actual opinion (that the Republican congress had more to do with it than Clinton) might be something you considered underestimating Clinton, but I didn't mention it in that post. As for Reagan, he had to build back up a military that had been neglected in the 70s in the aftermath of Vietnam. Carter started the build up a bit, but he only scratched the surface of dealing with the problems. Meanwhile Clinton had the peace dividend to work with. If you don't count the reduction in military personnel, in DoD personnel, and in personnel working on military related work outside the DoD (DoE nuclear weapons work, VA, etc.) than I'm pretty sure that there w as no reduction in government employees. Clinton also decreased spending on military spending To such an extent that it was part of the reason Bush had to increase it, even before Iraq. Of course the Bush policy of intended bankrupting America Nonsense. No intended or even unintended bankruptcy of America is occurring.