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To: TimF who wrote (110909)	5/7/2009 6:30:31 PM
From: Paul Kern	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541582

Again it seems I must deal with attacks on straw men. I said nothing about Republicans in general being fiscally responsible. Then the Republicans are fiscally irresponsible. Good. You're coming around. Now that we know that you: 1) Have TV 2) Can receive CBC 3) You must enter the Republican time machine (all Republicans have one? Don't they? How else can live in the Hoover administration in 2009?) 4)And go back to those days of yore, post Enron, and listen to the CNBC broadcasts around the time of the great Sarb-Ox controversy.

To: TimF who wrote (110909)	5/7/2009 6:32:01 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541582

I said nothing about Republicans in general being fiscally responsible. When you say things like, "Not the Democratic Party under Obama, and not even under Clinton until after the Republicans won control of congress", perhaps you can understand why people might believe that. If what you meant was that divided govt was responsible for the debt reduction, you could have said that, and avoided the misconception. However, the fact is that Clinton made pleasing the bond market one of his primary goals, believing that a healthy economy would follow. And pleasing the bond market involved debt and deficit reduction. It wasn't just "lip service." It is the Republicans who developed, believe and act on the Starve the Beast philosophy, not Democrats. I don't think that they are "equals" in creating deficits at all--the record of the past 30 years says that Republicans are the clear champions in that regard.