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Whoah... talk about CLUELESS. The government routinely gets monthly surpluses during certain months. January did pull a surplus, but that is normal considering quarterly corporate tax payments.

“We’re going to set aside all the payroll taxes for one thing, Social Security,” - George W. Bush, November 3, 2000

"To make sure the retirement savings of America's seniors are not diverted to any other program, my budget protects all $2.6 trillion of the Social Security surplus for Social Security and for Social Security alone" - George W. Bush, February 27, 2001

"We owe it to our children and grandchildren to act now, and I hope you will join me to pay down $2 trillion in debt during the next 10 years. At the end of those 10 years, we will have paid down all the debt that is available to retire" - George W. Bush, February 27, 2001

In 2001, The gov't raided 36 billion of the 163 billion social security surplus. In 2002-2004, it raided all $530 of the social security surplus for other spending.

The on-budget deficit for this year will be near $600 BILLION. It is readily apparent that he has backtracked on promises for social security and for debt management. Some could not be avoided (recession) - but we aren't in a recession now, and the deficit is worse than ever in absolute terms. Shouldn't we be paying off the debt now? If you think Bush is any better than Clinton on cronies, you're completely delusional.

If you think Bush is any better than Clinton on cronies, you're completely delusional.

I have read the quotes and I admit that things have not worked out that way. However, you did not provide any quotes from his campaign, did you?

This quote, however, indicates we cannot talk, anymore. " If you think Bush is any better than Clinton on cronies, you're completely delusional." I'll just remmind you that whereas Libby is the lone indictment, Clinton admin had 61. More important, though, many areas of the government were staffed with complete incompetents such as the electrity and corporate regulators. The need to reorganize intel and homeland security, also. It was let the good times roll and roll out of DC with rolls of dough.

I had not payed attention to politics for years, but Clinton admin was shockingly corrupt. Most of the Bush are sqeaky clean. Too bad you can't tell the differance, but since you can't I'll pass on continuing this conversation.