I bet that of all posters on this forum. I am the sole person who actually tracked the US budget for a long time. I did not rip Clinton for not predicting the dot.com explosion. I am saying he did not predict it. His budget surplus was not planned for. I have done a good many budgets and realize only fools believe they can always get what they predict. It is not to lash out at Clinton at all.
Think if you can like this. The Federal Budget is like we have to try to control a ship that is 500 miles long and has powerful engines. If you are lucky you don't hit a bridge.
My mortgage firm did well when Bush was president. I recall talking to a woman at a loan firm that the next day the place was closed down. It was like shit hit the fan in just one day. Haliburton only did some things in Iraq. But Cheney was long gone when that happened. Bush did not plan to invade Iraq in the 90s. I fault his dad for not properly dealing with Saddam in fact. Saddam was a grave and gathering danger to the world. If you miss him, holy shit.
They didn't?
Project for the New American Century - Wikipedia
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he Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was a neoconservative[1][2][3] think tank based in Washington, D.C., that focused on United States foreign policy. It was established as a non-profit educational organization in 1997, and founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan
Of the twenty-five people who signed PNAC's founding statement of principles, ten went on to serve in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush, including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz
PNAC played a key role in shaping the foreign policy of the Bush Administration, particularly in building support for the Iraq War.
The Project for the New American Century developed from Kristol and Kagan's belief that the Republican Party lacked a "compelling vision for American foreign policy", which would allow Republican leaders to effectively criticize President Bill Clinton's foreign policy record.