Right, the Tea Party is the "Villain" here when the plan you support only cuts $1 Billion from this years budget and still adds $7 Trillion to our debt over 10 years. Anyone that thinks republicans are being extreme here in wanting cuts doesn't realize that no one is actually cutting anything. All of their cuts come years down the road after congress has completely changed and the successors have no obligation to keep the word of the predecessors. This whole Reid vs Boener plan is one of the biggest bunch o
You think you have problems. I miss Carter, an engineer who may have been the last actual truthful president we ever had. Truth, however, doesn't win elections. We preferred the happytalk mythology of a has-been B-Actor in the beginning stages of Alzheimers who was little more than a shill for the financial industry in the person of Don Regan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Regan [wikipedia.org].
Oh, I know, I'm just saying in contrast to Obushma. He at least left office with a (for all intensive purposes) balanced budget. He didn't pass the buck off to a successor. He actually got things balanced. He never ran the surplus people claim as he just stole the money from SS, but his last budget was balanced.
It would only have remained balanced if the dot com bubble(and associated governmental revenues) had stayed stable. In his 2nd to last year in office it had already started to pop.
Whilst I agree that Clinton wasn't perfect. And he didn't leave a surplus.
But - please take a look at the following diagram [bbcimg.co.uk] attached to this article [bbc.co.uk].
I dare to suggest that if Clinton would have stayed on, the debt ceiling would not have risen to the heights where it is now.
In the last two years of the Clinton administration the debt ceiling did not have an upward trend. We will never know of course what could've happened.
And - from my personal experience - Americans were much happier during the Cli
the debt curve was clearly pointing downward at the end of the Clinton administration. So I would say that he did something right to make Americans happy.
USDebt.png [wikipedia.org]
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You think you have problems. I miss Carter, an engineer who may have been the last actual truthful president we ever had. Truth, however, doesn't win elections. We preferred the happytalk mythology of a has-been B-Actor in the beginning stages of Alzheimers who was little more than a shill for the financial industry in the person of Don Regan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Regan [wikipedia.org].
Me? Bitter?
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It would only have remained balanced if the dot com bubble(and associated governmental revenues) had stayed stable. In his 2nd to last year in office it had already started to pop.
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(for all intensive purposes)
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As opposed to weak purposes? I think the phrase you're looking for is "for all intents and purposes".
I'm sure you could care less about getting it right, but irregardless, that is a rediculous goof-up.
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Whilst I agree that Clinton wasn't perfect. And he didn't leave a surplus.
But - please take a look at the following diagram [bbcimg.co.uk] attached to this article [bbc.co.uk].
I dare to suggest that if Clinton would have stayed on, the debt ceiling would not have risen to the heights where it is now.
In the last two years of the Clinton administration the debt ceiling did not have an upward trend. We will never know of course what could've happened.
And - from my personal experience - Americans were much happier during the Cli
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