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I really don't give a rat's ass who was the last president to balance the budget. Or who controlled congress at the time.
What I do care about is that the next congress and the next President get their collective heads out of their asses and fix the economy which would include doing away with the deficit spending. And I don't even care what party they may belong to.
Democrat, Republican, Independent, Moon Glow Party.....It just doesn't matter.
Seriously, I want the deluded monkeys to name the last GOP prez that either balanced a budget or presided over a balanced budget without screwing it up. While they're at it, I'd like for them to name one time where a budget was balanced and or a deficit was significantly reduced solely by spending cuts and extremely low taxes. Talk is cheap, put or shut up, you Republitards have been repeating the same old BS, well if it will work show that it did.
Ummm.......is it 2011 or is it just me? And is this a POLITICS forum..........or not?
Internet k00ks talking about George Bush...................like anybody cares.
But go take a gandor over to The DUDGE REPORT tonight!!!
DRUDGE REPORT 2011®
I damn near laughed my balls off.
Id say the commentary would read for The Dums..................
As I understand it, the only reason Clinton had a budget surplus, aside from the GOP Congress that wouldn't let him spend more money, was that he borrowed money from the Social Security lockbox. Not sure if that was by choice or by law that he had to. Hey, I give a lot of credit to Clinton, he did a good job IMHO.
As Avatar says, it's Congress responsibility to legislate taxes and spending. So when was the last time a democrat controlled Congress had a balanced budget?
As I understand it, the only reason Clinton had a budget surplus, aside from the GOP Congress that wouldn't let him spend more money, was that he borrowed money from the Social Security lockbox. Not sure if that was by choice or by law that he had to. Hey, I give a lot of credit to Clinton, he did a good job IMHO.
As Avatar says, it's Congress responsibility to legislate taxes and spending. So when was the last time a democrat controlled Congress had a balanced budget?
*I* stopped reading there...As I understand it, the only reason Clinton had a budget surplus, aside from the GOP Congress that wouldn't let him spend more money, was that he borrowed money from the Social Security lockbox. Not sure if that was by choice or by law that he had to. Hey, I give a lot of credit to Clinton, he did a good job IMHO.
As Avatar says, it's Congress responsibility to legislate taxes and spending. So when was the last time a democrat controlled Congress had a balanced budget?
The rightwing propaganda machine has spent many an hour manufacturing an argument that claims Clinton didn't really have a balanced budget.
It's the same canard they use when they claim the 'real' unemployment number under Obama is 17%, not 9%.
The problem is, when you apply those new sets of rules or measures to everyone else's numbers (not just Clinton's or Obama's)
whether it's unemployment, or the budget surplus/deficit,
every other president's numbers get worse,
so in the case of Clinton's budgets, he STILL comes out looking the best.
You have to learn to see through the tricks of the propaganda trade.
Seriously, I want the deluded monkeys to name the last GOP prez that either balanced a budget or presided over a balanced budget without screwing it up. While they're at it, I'd like for them to name one time where a budget was balanced and or a deficit was significantly reduced solely by spending cuts and extremely low taxes. Talk is cheap, put or shut up, you Republitards have been repeating the same old BS, well if it will work show that it did.
That budget was never balanced in actual reality...It was projected to come into balance in 2002, in 1998.Clinton balanced the last budget.
But Republicans controlled Congress, so they get credit as well.
Generally, at the state level, Republicans have been better stewards of fiscal affairs than Democrats.
The CBO gave the lions share of the credit for the budget surpluses of the 1990s to the 1993 BRA which was signed by NOT ONE SINGLE republican.
so in the case of Clinton's budgets, he STILL comes out looking the best.
Clinton balanced the last budget.
But Republicans controlled Congress, so they get credit as well.
Generally, at the state level, Republicans have been better stewards of fiscal affairs than Democrats.
so in the case of Clinton's budgets, he STILL comes out looking the best.
he also had the Dot.Com boom helping him look good....even you would have looked good Carb if you were President then.........just sayin....
