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Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 2033
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 6, 2004 - 11:59 am: |     |
I really enjoyed reading this book review.
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/books/reviews/20040206_dean.html
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
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las
Citizen
Username: Las
Post Number: 5
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 6, 2004 - 1:20 pm: | |
Yeah, that sounds great, Tom. |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 1930
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 6, 2004 - 1:40 pm: | |
I love this:
quote:With the first Clinton budget, the president became so immersed in the details that he was able to make easy and fast decisions during the subsequent years.
With Bush, all the decisions were made a long time ago, and all that is left for the subsequent years is developing the rationale. |
cjc
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Username: Cjc
Post Number: 855
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 6, 2004 - 2:07 pm: | |
I know, tom, you won't buy this partisan source, but it's at least as credible as that great Budget Balancing Team you love.
This is from the Cato Institute -- a libertarian think tank. I write libertarian in there as they've actively opposed Bush on some issues, and I don't agree with them entirely myself. They are talking about who balanced the budget.
"Skeptics said it could not be done in seven years. The GOP did it in four.
Now let us contrast this with the Clinton fiscal record. Recall that it was the Clinton White House that fought Republicans every inch of the way in balancing the budget in 1995. When Republicans proposed their own balanced-budget plan, the White House waged a shameless Mediscare campaign to torpedo the plan -- a campaign that the Washington Post slammed as "pure demagoguery." It was Bill Clinton who, during the big budget fight in 1995, had to submit not one, not two, but five budgets until he begrudgingly matched the GOP's balanced-budget plan. In fact, during the height of the budget wars in the summer of 1995, the Clinton administration admitted that "balancing the budget is not one of our top priorities."
And lest we forget, it was Bill Clinton and his wife who tried to engineer a federal takeover of the health care system -- a plan that would have sent the government's finances into the stratosphere."
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Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 2034
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 6, 2004 - 2:24 pm: | |
Well, maybe Clinton fought too much, but at least, according to the book review I cited, he thought about it and discussed it. The quote from Bush about Paul O'Neill confirms O'Neill's assertion that Bush was disengaged. His state of being "bored as hell" indicates he didn't understand fiscal issues and didn't want to be involved in deciding on them. Could anything be more dangerous than that?
As for healthcare, it seems to me that the healthcare system we have now happens to be what the Clintons proposed and the Republicans shot down. It has evolved to this state without any resolutions. And it turns out to be a disaster. I can't really think of a worse system than we have now.
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