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To: TimF who wrote (15833)	3/31/2010 6:01:22 PM
From: Alighieri	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Even without those things you wouldn't have had a $5tril surplus. And we should take your word for that rather than that of the CBO? Oh, right...the CBO is always wrong in whatever direction suits your particular political bent. But the main contributor to increasing the deficits was not tax cuts or wars, but rather increased social spending. Sure...PartD was a GOP initiative. Bush. Two wars did not contribute to the deficits? Are you, what, silly or what? The greatest spending and the largest deficits occured after the Dems took over. That's bullshit. There was nothing but momentum of GOP initiatives during the dem congress. The two tax cuts had been passed, the two wars had been started and PartD had been passed. All under GOP control of WH, Senate and congress....all on a tax payer's credit card. Al