> 1) I am a fan of gridlock. I think if Obama wins, with a
> Democrat
> dominated Congress, there will be a lot of new spending.
> I'm convinced
> Clinton would have spent more if the Republicans didn't
> dominate
> Congress during most of his 8 years.
> 2) A surplus does not equal less spending. Clinton balanced
> the budget
> by raising taxes and and keeping the rate of spending
> growth in control.
> He was lucky to have a period of rapidly growing GDP and
> tax revenues,
> and a Republican Congress for most of his years made it
> more difficult
> to pass new spending bills. Not that a balanced budget is
> bad, but I'd
> rather see the budget balanced by cutting spending rather
> than raising taxes.
i prefer taxing the rich. if clinton balanced the budget by raising taxes, at
least he created a surplus, whereas bush/cheney are leaving us with a huge
deficit and economic collapse. if the supreme court had not given the election
to bush, the world would be a different place now...
if obama wins in a landslide then he will be able to undo the damage done by
bush/cheney in ways the FDR did when the democrats controlled all three
branches of government...
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