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Originally Posted by Azure
Get my point. Both parties seem to not give a **** about the debt or deficit. Clinton ran a surplus, but Bush ran into 9/11.
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I don't really understand why we're blaming 9/11 for a deficit that
a) Bush was well on his way to creating in August of 2001 and
b) is still growing, 5 years later.
Long story short--9/11 didn't cause the deficit. If it had, it would be at least getting better by now, instead of worse. Here's a thought--maybe the deficit had something to do with Bush giving 300 dollars to every taxpayer along with a giant tax cut the following April?
To pretend that 9/11 caused the deficit is just historical revisionism. Even if it were true, why would the problem still be getting worse? The truth is, Bush has no plan for balancing the budget, and never did--which already makes him on one easy benchmark, a far worse president than Clinton.