Really OldRoy, you want this Progressive to believe the 1990's Republican Congress forced President Clinton to tax the rich? Wow! Seriously. It was more like Clinton was forced to work with Republican$. I do not believe that one Republican went along with Clinton's 1993 Budget Act that would require $2.00 of revenue for every $2.00 of spending.

The Republican$ said that his budget would cost jobs; and 22.5 million jobs were created and unemployment dropped from 7.5% when he took office to 4.0% by the end of his second term, the lowest in 30 years.

When President Clinton took office he had a $290 billion national deficit handed to him by George H. W. Bush. When he left office in 2001 he handed George W. Bush a $124 billion surplus and Bush used every penny to pay for his tax breaks for the rich with John Boehner looking on. Bush did this in spite of the economist telling him to continue with Clinton's 1993 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, which became know as the 1993 Budget Act.

Economist say that if the 1993 Budget Act was continued we would not have the $16 trillion deficit we have today.

Really OldRoy, you want this Progressive to believe the 1990's Republican Congress forced President Clinton to tax the rich? Wow! Seriously. It was more like Clinton was forced to work with Republican$. I do not believe that one Republican went along with Clinton's 1993 Budget Act that would require $2.00 of revenue for every $2.00 of spending.

The Republican$ said that his budget would cost jobs; and 22.5 million jobs were created and unemployment dropped from 7.5% when he took office to 4.0% by the end of his second term, the lowest in 30 years.

When President Clinton took office he had a $290 billion national deficit handed to him by George H. W. Bush. When he left office in 2001 he handed George W. Bush a $124 billion surplus and Bush used every penny to pay for his tax breaks for the rich with John Boehner looking on. Bush did this in spite of the economist telling him to continue with Clinton's 1993 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, which became know as the 1993 Budget Act.

Economist say that if the 1993 Budget Act was continued we would not have the $16 trillion deficit we have today.

Really Paco your knowledge of history is lacking. Tell me you never heard that the GOP rejected 7 Clinton budgets before he finally submitted a balanced budget? You never heard about Newt shutting down government?

In 1995, Time magazine named Newt Gingrich "Man of the Year": "Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. Newt Gingrich belongs in the category of the exceptional. All year -- ruthlessly, brilliantly, obnoxiously -- he worked at hammering together inevitabilities: a balanced federal budget, for one. ... Today, because of Gingrich (emphasis added), the question is not whether a balanced-budget plan will come to pass but when.

Really Paco your knowledge of history is lacking. Tell me you never heard that the GOP rejected 7 Clinton budgets before he finally submitted a balanced budget? You never heard about Newt shutting down government?

In 1995, Time magazine named Newt Gingrich "Man of the Year": "Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. Newt Gingrich belongs in the category of the exceptional. All year -- ruthlessly, brilliantly, obnoxiously -- he worked at hammering together inevitabilities: a balanced federal budget, for one. ... Today, because of Gingrich (emphasis added), the question is not whether a balanced-budget plan will come to pass but when.

Really OldRoy, you want this Progressive to believe the 1990's Republican Congress forced President Clinton to tax the rich? Wow! Seriously. It was more like Clinton was forced to work with Republican$. I do not believe that one Republican went along with Clinton's 1993 Budget Act that would require $2.00 of revenue for every $2.00 of spending.

The Republican$ said that his budget would cost jobs; and 22.5 million jobs were created and unemployment dropped from 7.5% when he took office to 4.0% by the end of his second term, the lowest in 30 years.

How big would that debt be these days if Clinton's rules had stuck? You do know that without the Congress passing the law it would never have been there. You didn't know that did you?

I think you may find that the two good years Clinton had were somewhat past 1993. Also, if you look around you will find that his "surpluses" were both about the same amount that the "surplus" of the SS taxes. You know that Dems really started that taking of the surplus of SS taxes to pay for things that should have been done only under taxes? No, you didn't know that either? Would there have been a need for us to worry so much about SS if the taxes for SS had been allowed to sit instead of being spent like they were part of income tax? Surely you know the answer to that one.

When President Clinton took office he had a $290 billion national deficit handed to him by George H. W. Bush. When he left office in 2001 he handed George W. Bush a $124 billion surplus and Bush used every penny to pay for his tax breaks for the rich with John Boehner looking on. Bush did this in spite of the economist telling him to continue with Clinton's 1993 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, which became know as the 1993 Budget Act.

Economist say that if the 1993 Budget Act was continued we would not have the $16 trillion deficit we have today.

Really Paco your knowledge of history is lacking. Tell me you never heard that the GOP rejected 7 Clinton budgets before he finally submitted a balanced budget? You never heard about Newt shutting down government?

In 1995, Time magazine named Newt Gingrich "Man of the Year": "Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. Newt Gingrich belongs in the category of the exceptional. All year -- ruthlessly, brilliantly, obnoxiously -- he worked at hammering together inevitabilities: a balanced federal budget, for one. ... Today, because of Gingrich (emphasis added), the question is not whether a balanced-budget plan will come to pass but when.