But the problem with Bush is, like many righties, he doesn't like to read. He likes to cut brush.
What if I told you, you are giving 8 million a day to a bad golddigger wife
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Even if we use your numbers,BUSH STILL INCREASED THE DEFICIT BY OVER A TRILLION DOLLARS
http://factcheck.org/2008/02/the-budget-and-deficit-under-clinton/
http://articles.cnn.com/2000-09-27/...onal-debt-fiscal-discipline?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS
President Clinton announces another record budget surplus
BUDGET SURPLUS
September 27, 2000
President Clinton announced Wednesday that the federal budget surplus for fiscal year 2000 amounted to at least $230 billion, making it the largest in U.S. history and topping last year's record surplus of $122.7 billion."This represents the largest one-year debt reduction in the history of the United States," Clinton said Wednesday morning. "Like our American athletes in Sydney, we've been breaking records and have come a long way."In June, the administration predicted the surplus would be $211 billion, and would increase by as much as $1 trillion over the next 10 years.Clinton also announced the federal government paid down the national debt by $223 billion this year, and by more than $360 billion since 1998, the largest debt reduction in U.S. history."The key to fiscal discipline is maintaining these results year after year. We need to put our priorities in order," Clinton said.The president's news comes as lawmakers on Capitol Hill continue to wrestle with the fiscal year 2001 budget numbers. The new budget year begins October 1, and Congress and the White House remain at odds over spending allocations."I hope we will see a continuation of this trend in the final budget negotiations," the president said. "I am concerned frankly about the size and last-minute nature of this year's congressional spending spree." Congress, Clinton said, has not adequately funded education programs, strengthened Medicare and funded other domestic priorities set forth by the administration."These are the things that need to be done and I certainly hope they will be and still make the right investments and the right amount of tax cuts," Clinton said.The president unveiled the new numbers in a statement at the White House, before departing for fund-raising events in Dallas and Houston."This is part of our fiscal discipline to reduce the debt with the federal surplus," said one White House official who asked not to be identified. Reducing the debt, the official said, has "real effects for real Americans." It means lower interest rates for mortgages, car loans and college loans, and leads to an increase in investment and more jobs."It is the third year in a row the federal government has taken in more than it spent, and has paid down the debt. The last time the U.S. government had a third consecutive years of national debt reduction was 1949, said the official.The federal budget surplus for fiscal year 1999 was 122.7 billion, and 69.2 billion for fiscal year 1998. Those back-to-back surpluses, the first since 1957, allowed the Treasury to pay down $138 billion in national debt.
Politicians cook the books to pretend the deficit is whatever they want it to be. And "factcheck.org" swallows the lies. There is a simple way to determine the deficit. You look at the total federal debt at the end of the year, and compare it to the total federal debt at the end of the previous year. Subtract, and you have the deficit. The U.S. Treasury publishes the debt figures. So unless you're going to argue that the U.S. Treasury is lying about how much debt is outstanding there is no way to deny that we had a deficit during every year of the Clinton administration.
It is childish to an extreme to look at the deficits while Clinton was president, the deficits while Bush was president, and say that the difference was entirely due to who was president, when the president doesn't even write the laws or vote on the budget. Am I to seriously believe that under Gore Democrats wouldn't have voted for another giant entitlement program for senior citizens? Or that they would not have voted to double the size of the Department of Education? And most of the growth in the deficit was due to entitlement programs and pensions set in place years or decades before. A few smart and honest people were warning about the unfunded liabilities back in the 70s and 80s. Now the chickens have come home to roost, as the promises come due so more and more of those unfunded liabilities are transformed into actual bona fide debt. If Democrats impose fiscal order on the federal government we've seen no hint of that from the Obama administration.
This from the ignoranus who can't even understand a dumbed-down program on the Science Channel 
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3473280#post3473280
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3473280#post3473280
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What a difference this country would be today if the election wasn't stolen from Gore
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This from the ignoranus who can't even understand a dumbed-down program on the Science Channel
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3473280#post3473280
Yes, the "ignoranus" Too funny. If you were smarter than a rock I might think you misspelled it on purpose.