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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I'm not sure where this equivalency comes from. Clinton decided early in his first term that he wanted to win over Wall Street, and had to balance the budget to do it. It's easy to attribute the surpluses on his watch to the booming economy, but he could have proposed big spending initiatives to devote this money, and by and large did not.
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Take a look at this -- it's like a dispatch from another planet.
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I wasn't referring to the Clinton administration specifically, but I'm not sure you want to go there. While I believe Clinton was more fiscally responsible than Bush has been thus far, he benefited from a once in a lifetime boom, plus made substantial cuts in the military/intelligence communities. And whether you want to believe it or not, the cuts have had a horrific effect on our national safety.
