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Originally posted by TomJ
What we'll find is a steadily improving economy. Improving from the RAPID DOWNTURN that started BEFORE Bush took office. The economy was in full swing when Clinton took over and stayed strong on its own momentum for a while, but the social programs and increased taxes to pay for them took it's toll and it came crashing down.
The typical liberal socialists whose mantra is "Bush out at all costs" seem to have it in their heads that the gov can just "print more money" and we'd ALL be rich. No kidding, I actually had someone tell me this! They also argued that we incarcerate more of our population than any other county, then proceeded to say Saudi Arabia has the lowest. Thank goodness I could point out that in Saudi, you rob/rape/steal from someone only once - then chop, chop square. They just didn't get it.
The economy still sucks. The loss of the trade towers took more than war funds from us, the loss in business was in the trillions. I'm surprised we haven't seen another great depression to tell the truth.
Of course...., there's still time....
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There was not a single major social prgram passed during the Clinton years. In fact, the largest expansion of social prgrams since the 1970s was the perscription drug bill. which the Republican House and Senate passed and the President just signed. It's a freakin boondoggle that is now projected to have unestimated cost overruns in the hundreds of billions, so spare me the standard bad ole liberals soap box speech. They haven't been a factor in government expeditures since 1992, 12 yrs ago.
Spending and tax policy originates in the House, which has been repub majority since then, without interruption.
Clinton also ran the largest budget surpluses in history, but I don't give him credit for that. I personally credit the good economy during the Clinton years to gridlock government, which kept both the Repubs and Demos from screwing up the economy. The repubs are currently screwing it up royally by passing out tax cuts financed by deficits because they don't havethe political balls to cut spending. It doesn't matter whose in power, all our politicians love pork. They just hand it out to different constituencies, thats all. When one party gains too much power, they hand out to much pork, whether its Great Society Democrats handing it out to lazy welfare cheats or Rebublicans handing it out to Halliburton, its the same ****.