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To: Paul Smith who wrote (140993)	7/17/2010 9:37:49 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 544248

<<<Follows through on it? What does that mean? What power in the Constitution are you referring to? Your understanding as you express it here does not seem rooted in what the Constitution actually says.>>> I never mentioned the Constitution but somehow you invoked the Federalist Papers and then brought into the discussion the Constitution and presumably the Articles of Confederation and Amendments and their interpretations. I described the federal budget process as it related to how Bush and Clinton submitted to Congress, each year while they were in office, a detailed budget request that is consistent with their overall federal fiscal policies and that details "(1) how much money the federal government should spend on public purposes; (2) how much it should take in as tax revenues; and (3) how much of a deficit (or surplus) the federal government should run, which is simply the difference between (1) and (2)." Even though Democrats lost control of Congress during six of his eight years in office, Clinton managed and followed through on his budget proposals to achieve a budget surplus. Even though Republicans had control of Congress six of eight years while Bush was in office, he managed to turn record surpluses into record deficits.