[KoRn]

Looking at the decisions that Helicopter Ben and Terrible Timmay have made, you have to wonder whether or not they are thinking even one step ahead. Everything they are doing might hold things together for the moment, but could lead to disaster in a few years.

[PaulAllen]

That is a very important observation. I have seen it too many times. I also remember Clinton chuckling when he turned the Presidency over to Bush, that there would be some economic challenges. Of course when he got in it was set up just right, we had a surplus and everything.

The Kennedy/Reagan/Bush (KRB) Tax Policy Paradox* Richard H. Day

The growth of the later Reagan and Clinton years was stimulated in part by the tax reductions instituted in the 1980s. The fiscal restraint of the Clinton years enabled the increasing tax revenue to reduce the deficit and then produce a surplus. http://www.bus.ucf.edu/seminars/public/current/eco/downloads/2006_11_09_01_02.pdf