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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (43983)	7/2/2010 7:54:40 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Re: "I think his point is that Clinton faced far better circumstances to reduce deficits and achieve surpluses than other recent presidents of either party....' I don't see how one could think that.... The STRUCTURAL DEFICITS left behind by H.W. Bush were greater in magnitude then even the structural federal deficit left behind by his son... (although the 'episodic' global financial crisis and collapse that landed in the last two years of the latter-day President Bush exceeded the severity of any single financial crisis faced by his father, the structural federal deficits bequeathed by the senior Bush were still worse.)