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While Clinton did run into good fortune, he also contributed by keeping deficits low and eventually balancing the budgets to create confidence on Wall Street, kept social spending down, moved more people out of poverty than Reagan and Bush I combined by cutting welfare rolls by 60% through welfare reform, expanded trade by pushing for NAFTA's passage, and refusing to squander the surplus. He was the only president since WWII to have fiscal responsibility. There is consensus among economists, regardless of ideological stripe, that he was the president most attentive to economic matters and he was one of the greatest economic presidents of all time. And...he redistributed wealth.
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Moved people off of welfare, kept social spending down <> He redistributed wealth Second, your statement about him Bill Clinton balancing budgets and keeping social spending down is completely OPPOSITE of what Obama is doing. March Budget deficit sets record of 192 Billion. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090410/...federal_budget btw... If you remember it was the republicans in congress that pushed for the balanced budgets in their notable "Contract with America". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America Are you seriously going to give Clinton credit for balancing the budget? That was clearly a republican driven measure. http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5656
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March Budget deficit sets record of 192 Billion. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090410/...federal_budget btw... If you remember it was the republicans in congress that pushed for the balanced budgets in their notable "Contract with America". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America Quote:
Praise God for the internet boom that gave us the surplus, but it certainly would not have happened without Clinton either.
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Lets see a budget proposal that ran a deficit was not supported by republicans in congress. Thanks for proving my point.
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But anyhow, crediting the Republicans with a balanced budget is, well, impossible when you also argue there was never a balanced budget.
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That he would rather cut discretionary spending than social programs is just more evidence that he's a socialist and that is not a good thing. Hopefully, he'll get only 4 years to do his damage, which will be 4 years too many.
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Heh, wow. Talk about a non sequitur. Love you too, tooblue.
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Why insult Tex like this?
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