Re: Republicans: Spending like there's no tomorrow

"JoettaB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > T.Carr allegedly said:
> >
> > >
> > >> Sorry......I should have said:
> > >>
> > >> "Yet the first time they get control of both houses of Congress in
> > >> decades without a Democrat president to veto their bills, they spend
>  the
> > >> house out!!!"
> > >
> > >
> > >   Just like 1993-94..only a different party was in power
> >
> > They didn't spend the house out.  Clinton was moving toward
> > surpluses.....and got there.
> >
> > Bush.....he's a disaster in almost every policy area....running the
>  largest
> > deficit ever.......and for what?
> >
> > Not health or education or better roads.....
> >
> > Just war.
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Best Regards,
> > Steve Withers
> > defenestrate: The act of throwing Windows out the window and replacing it
>  on
> > your PC with some other operating system.
> 

JoettaB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

> Well, now you've gone and done it. You've proven that a Democrat in the
> office over a Democratic Senate and House actually produced surpluses rather
> than these HUGE deficits we are now holding.

  He proved no such thing. 

  There were large deficits under Clinton when the 'dems controlled
the Congress in 1993-94

  http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2004/pdf/hist.pdf
  (Section 1.2, pg 26)

  FY       Total Defict ($B)

1993        255
1994        203
1995        164 (GOP Congress + Tax cuts)
1996        107
1997        22



 It seems fairly simple to me.

  It might seem "fairly simple"

  Other than the budget act of 1993 what did Clinton actually do to
earn credit for the economy of the 1990's?. Bush '41 tried the same
tactic and ended up with a recession that cost him his job.


> The Republicans run on a borrow and spend and spend and spend policy while
> continuing to blame Democrats for being the big tax and spend party.

  Other than JFK, name a modern 'dem who supported a tax cut? Clinton
campaigned on a tax cut in 1992 and raised taxes in 1993. He objected
to the GOP plan in the mid 1990's but signed it to take a issue away
from the GOP for the 1996 elections.

  But instead of new deficts from tax cuts, the opposite happened.

  I have no problem with short term deficits to help the economy out
of the recession. (Long term is a different situation).



                                                                    
T.Carr