When Bill Clinton left a balanced budget with surpluses in line to completely eliminate the national debt by 2012, why did George W. Bush slash tax rates for the rich and double the debt from $5.7 trillion to nearly $12 trillion?
Cambell............never was a surplus. So, if you really want to discuss what happened, you need to start from there. And if you want to disagree, then we need to have that conversation before going on to the next.
SIDE NOTE-----------> Bill Clinton and the contract with America Republicans DID come as close as possible to a balanced budget as you could imagine. Any reasonable person on this board would accept this as opposed as what is happening today.
To many people want to give credit, or take credit, from the groups involved. We should all laugh at that, considering it shows us the possibilities, when government actually works for US, towards solutions, no matter which side of the aisle they reside on. We must all also remember that to much of a good thing, becomes a bad thing. (5 to 7 glasses of water for us humans per day is a good thing, so by certain people's logic, if we dump the whole of lake Michigan on a person, they should morph into superman/woman/person)
So with that being said, the MULTI-MULTI- TRILLION dollar question is this, and ONLY this in the national election-----------------> today, as a society and economy, have we recently traveled to far left, to far right, or have we found the sweet spot that we must maintain! As a society, how you choose where are you are going is totally subjective as far as what you believe. But as an economy, most people can show our current course has HURT us tremendously. And which way is our current course, left or right?
The answer is pretty obvious, but that is the question every person on here needs ask. Once it is answered, it may NOT tell them how to vote for improvement in the Presidential, but it WILL tell them the best course on the down ballot.