In article , "FDR" wrote:

"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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In article , "Doug Kanter"
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" So tell me how it is Republicans in congress were able to control
the
government spending under Clinton and not under Bush?

Interesting question. But, your "opponent" here hasn't got the (balls?
honesty? smarts?) to answer it. "

Spending wasn't controlled by anyone under Clinton.

Your response makes sense, but there's something else: Say what you will
about Clinton, but when Congress dealt with him, they were dealing with
someone who had some business sense

Whaaaaat? Bush has an MBA from Harvard, and *Clinton* is the one with
"business sense"? Yeah, right. Clinton has so much business sense, he
thought
that nationalized health care would be a *good* thing for us. Uh-huh.

Yeah, so what? When Bush came out with a plan to reduce taxes on dividends,
nearly every economist did a collective shrug and said "huh"?

My recollection of the reaction to that is a bit different...

If Bush had a MBA then he must understand how to balance a budget. So far
he hasn't come even close.

Well, there's the recession he inherited from Clinton. And the 9/11 attacks,
also a legacy of Clinton's persistent failure to do anything about al Qaida
and OBL, had just a bit of an effect on our economy. We ran big budget
deficits during WWII also; does that mean that Roosevelt didn't know how to
balance a budget?

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Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.