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To: Sdgla who wrote (37625)	1/13/2013 12:03:15 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

>> Who was in control of the Congress during Clinton's years ? When you get down to it, Clinton's "surplus" (actually, a near-surplus) was a product of several things -- - Reagan having won the Cold War which generated a peace dividend; - The late 90s tax cuts which spurred economic growth; - Newt Gingrich's "Contract With America"; - A tech boom that resulted in part from the Internet moving from the status of a government operated entity to one in which private enterprise had a legitimate interest. It is convenient for them to classify everything by "president", but reality, of course, is that it just doesn't work that way.