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Ärende: Re: Billy Graham
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RD Sandman <rdsandman[spamremove]@comcast.net> wrote in 
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> Mitchell Holman <nomailverizon.net> wrote in 
> news:XnsA0FBD544757A1nomailverizonnet@216.196.121.131:
> 
>> RD Sandman <rdsandman[spamremove]@comcast.net> wrote in 
>> news:XnsA0FBA676236CChopewell@216.196.121.131:
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>>> Mitchell Holman <nomailverizon.net> wrote in 
>>> news:XnsA0FBB74998E39nomailverizonnet@216.196.121.131:
>>> 
>>>> RD Sandman <rdsandman[spamremove]@comcast.net> wrote in
>>>> news:XnsA0FB92CAA79A0hopewell@216.196.121.131: 
>>>> 
>>>>> SkyEyes <skyeyes9@cox.net> wrote in
>>>>> news:e958ac5d-5d9b-4a20-9ad2-990674881cd5
>> @o5g2000pbd.googlegroups.com:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The fact remains, whatever your protestations, that Bush was handed 
>> a
>>>>>> *surplus*, 
>>>>> 
>>>>> No, he wasn't. 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>       So Bush lied.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> "You see, the growing surplus exists because taxes are 
>>>> too high and government is charging more than it needs."
>>>> Bush Address to Congress, Feb 2001
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>       And the US Treasury lied:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> U.S. budget surplus shrinks  
>>>> October 29, 2001 
>>>>  
>>>> NEW YORK (CNNmoney) - The U.S. government's budget surplus 
>>>> shrank in 2001, the Treasury Department reported Monday, 
>>>> dragged down by a sluggish economy, falling tax revenue and 
>>>> the impact of last month's terror attacks. The Treasury 
>>>> Department reported a budget surplus for the fiscal year, 
>>>> which ended on Sept. 30, of $127 billion, compared with $237 
>>>> billion a year ago.
>>>> money.cnn.com/2001/10/29/economy/budget/ 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>       And Fox News lied. 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> "The last surplus was in 2001, President Bush's first year in 
> office."
>>>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296720,00.html
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>      And the Congressional Budget Office lied.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> "Since peaking at $290 billion in 1992, deficits have declined each 
>>>> year, dropping to a level of $22 billion in 1997. For 1998, the 
>>>> Nation recorded its first budget surplus ($69.2 billion) since 1969. 
>>>> As a percent of GDP, the budget bottom line went from a deficit of 
>>>> 4.7% in 1992 to a surplus of 0.8% in 1998."
>>>> http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy00/pdf/hist.pdf
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>      And Newt Gingrich lied:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> "We should take the $1 trillion in SURPLUS and spend it on a tax 
>>>> cut," Gingrich told reporters after a House GOP leadership meeting. 
>>>> But Gingrich also said that the $1 trillion tax cut plan he favors 
>>>> might net only $750 billion in tax relief for technical reasons. 
>>>> Gingrich said he favors "taking $1 trillion in surplus and spending 
>>>> it on tax cuts which, for reflow reasons, probably gets about to 
>>>> be $750 billion" in total tax relief."
>>>> http://www.ctj.org/itep/ging98an.htm
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>      And John McCain lied:
>>>> 
>>>> "I believe we must save Social Security, we must pay down the 
>>>> debt, we have to make an investment in Medicare. For us to put 
>>>> all of the surplus into tax cuts, I think is not a conservative 
>>>> effort." John McCain, January 11, 2000
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/289qw6r
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>      Wow.
>>> 
>>> Those are "projections".
>> 
>> 
>> "For 1998, the Nation recorded its first budget 
>> surplus ($69.2 billion) since 1969."
>> 
>>    The CBO didn't say "projection", they said
>> RECORDED SURPLUS.
> 
> In 1998, that was true but then we weren't discussing 1998.  We were 
> discussing the "surpluses" Clinton passed on to Bush.  From when Bush 
> took office, those were projections from the Clinton budgets.  Are you 
> really that stupid you don't know how budgets and budget projections 
> work?
> 
> 
> Why is that so hard to grasp?

Seriously? You have to ask?

Debt, deficit, projections - IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT!!!!!!
 
> Perhaps, you should try answering your own question.
> 
> 



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