Right, the Tea Party is the "Villain" here when the plan you support only cuts $1 Billion from this years budget and still adds $7 Trillion to our debt over 10 years. Anyone that thinks republicans are being extreme here in wanting cuts doesn't realize that no one is actually cutting anything. All of their cuts come years down the road after congress has completely changed and the successors have no obligation to keep the word of the predecessors. This whole Reid vs Boener plan is one of the biggest bunch o
When it is claimed that Clinton paid down the national debt, that is patently false--as can be seen, the national debt went up every single year. What Clinton did do was pay down the public debt--notice that the claimed surplus is relatively close to the decrease in the public debt for those years. But he paid down the public debt by borrowing far more money in the form of intragovernmental holdings (mostly Social Security). http://www.craigsteiner.us/articles/16
Oh, I know, I'm just saying in contrast to Obushma. He at least left office with a (for all intensive purposes) balanced budget. He didn't pass the buck off to a successor. He actually got things balanced. He never ran the surplus people claim as he just stole the money from SS, but his last budget was balanced.
It would only have remained balanced if the dot com bubble(and associated governmental revenues) had stayed stable. In his 2nd to last year in office it had already started to pop.
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When it is claimed that Clinton paid down the national debt, that is patently false--as can be seen, the national debt went up every single year. What Clinton did do was pay down the public debt--notice that the claimed surplus is relatively close to the decrease in the public debt for those years. But he paid down the public debt by borrowing far more money in the form of intragovernmental holdings (mostly Social Security).
http://www.craigsteiner.us/articles/16
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It would only have remained balanced if the dot com bubble(and associated governmental revenues) had stayed stable. In his 2nd to last year in office it had already started to pop.
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(for all intensive purposes)
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As opposed to weak purposes? I think the phrase you're looking for is "for all intents and purposes".
I'm sure you could care less about getting it right, but irregardless, that is a rediculous goof-up.