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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Janice Shell who wrote (8673)	2/27/1998 10:20:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

From the Dallas Morning News today (Not in its entirety-I cut and pasted): Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk has demanded the resignation of a Dallas/Fort Worth International board member (Eddie Hill) who made an advance toward a secretary behind closed doors. In a Feb 13 letter to Mr. Kirk, Mr. Hill wrote of the encounter with the secretary, "While this certainly indicates poor judgment...it remains no more than two people who admired one another." Airport officials confirm that in mid-Jan. the woman complained to officials of "discomfort" after Mr. Hill, who is not married, invited her into a senior administrator's office and closed the door. After she rejected his request for a date, he later put his business card on her windshield. We all know that the the leaving of a business card on a woman's windshield is one of the most serious of sexual harassment accusations; she must have been terrified.

To: Janice Shell who wrote (8673)	2/27/1998 10:36:00 AM
From: Hunter Vann	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Going back and reading the old posts on this thread are quite humorous. The battle for #6969 was a classic. One thing does disturb me quite a bit about the Pro-Clintonites on this thread. Most democrats argue that despite Clinton's troubled personal life his approval ratings are sky high.(of which I can not deny). Most Americans agree that the reason for such high approval ratings is the current state of the economy. But let's retrace our steps back to the Reagan era and see who actually should take credit for the current state of our economy. During Reagan's administration, democrats controlled the majority in the house. However, congressional democrats escaped responsibility for the deficits that their spending created by simply naming deficits for Presidents--"Reagan Deficit" -- "Bush Deficit". If one were to look closely at the situation, one would realize that all spending bills originate in the House of Representatives, which the Democrats controlled for decades. One should also realize that the President of the United States cannot create deficits or surpluses. During Reagan's era, tax revenues were actually higher in every year of the two Reagan admininstrations than in any previous administration. I tend to put the blame on the democratic controlled congress' greater increases in spending that prevented much of this increase in revenue from eliminating the deficit. As Mr. Thomas Sowell states, "It was not a decline in tax revenue, but uncontrolled increases in spending that piled up bigger deficits." So who's to take credit for our country's current economic success? I tend to lean toward the policies set forth by the Republican-controlled Congress rather than the man sitting in the Oval office. The Republicans have managed to restrain spending, while the continuing growth of the economy brought in enough additional revenue to reduce the deficit. ~~ok, fire away...