Re: Republicans: Spending like there's no tomorrow

"T.Carr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "JoettaB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > "steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > 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

HELLOOOOO... is anybody in there???? Doesn't 1993 look much larger than
1997???? If so, you can thank Clinton!


>  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.

HELLOOO AGAIN.... read the above stats and you will have your own answer.

> > 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.

How could they? Every Democratic President since Reagan has been trying to
bail the country out of unchecked Republican spending.

>   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).

Short term, huh? And how do you think this deficit is going to "poof" go
away?


> T.Carr