Posted on 11/27/2001 5:18:21 AM PST by boris
With academic imprecision, Thomas Sowell launches yet another diatribe against former President Clinton with Nov. 16th's "Clinton's Blame-U.S. Talk Asinine."
Is it possible that Clinton is as bad as Sowell and the other Clinton-haters say he is?
All Clinton did was lead the U.S. from Bush No. 1's recession, with $300 billon per year in deficits in 1991, to the year 2000 Golden Age of economic strength with the first budget surpluses since 1969.
Clinton's last budget forecast a trillion-dollar surplus over 10 years to continue paying down the $3 trillion Reagan left from the 1980's (which costs taxpayers $200 billion each year for interest alone).
Despite personal flaws that two-thirds of the voters forgave, President Clinton was good for the economic health of the country and deserves lots of credit for accomplishing this in spite of the eight years of continuing harassment from the super-conservative right wing of the political spectrum.
Alan Greenspan
Clinton gave us the biggest tax icrease in history, removing monies from the system, throwing us into the economic recession we have today.
Clinton was a failure as a president, and I'm glad people ARE speaking out. It's about time!
Absolutely. Without a doubt.
While I give the GOP congress credit for many things, controlling spending is NOT one of them. Far to often they gave Clinton MORE than he asked for in the spending department.
Where did this two-thirds garbage come from? Clinton received less than 50% of the vote in each election, the first time against a candidate (G.H.W.B.) who honestly believed that Americans were decent enough to see Clinton for what he is so it wouldn't be necessary to run a campaign based on his opponent's corruption, and the second against an opponent (Dole) the G.O.P. didn't really want in the first place.
Truth be told nearly two-thirds voted against Clinton each time.
This is another lie that gets repeated in the media with nauseating regularity. I'd like to know what data this is based on? GDP doesn't show it. My personal finances certainly don't show it. Outside of the stock indices, there isn't any data to support this assertion that I can find. Plus the Dims were claiming this as a success before Clintoon even raised our taxes in '93! What a load of poop!
--Boris
CLANG CLANG CLANG
Those teapots will haunt you forever.
but only if they can line their pockets in the process...
These two self-serving, balkanizing, atavistic slugs are depraved and dangerous... Not only are they 9-11's proximate cause... they continue to undermine the war on terrorism.
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