Re: Are you better off than you u were 8 years ago?
Date: January 19, 2009 06:08PM
Light Shedder Wrote:
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> WashingToneLocian Wrote:
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> > Eight years ago we weren't at war, we had a $1
> > trillion surplus and nobody was talking about
> 10%
> > unemployment and soup lines.
>
> Eight years ago, we were at war. Those nutjobs
> have been attacking us since the early 90s.
> Simply because the previous administration didn't
> recognize a war against the USA doesn't mean we
> weren't at war.
Actually, the Clinton Administration recognized Al Qaeda was a threat. That's why they stopped the Millennial bombing in 1999. You know, the plot to blow up LAX? Bush, on the other hand, didn't do shit to stop 9/11 even though he had ample warning of an impending attack.
> Tell the sailors of the USS Cole,
> the dead in the 1993 WTC bombings, the dead at the
> embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, and the dead at
> the Khobar towers we weren't at war.
>
If you want to use that definition of War, then we are at war with Cuba and Iran for blowing up their civilian aircraft and killing hundreds of people. Is that true? Are at war with those countries? We are also at war with Israel for its killing of U.S. sailors. Do you believe we are at war with Israel?
> Also, this so called trillion dollar surplus was a
> phantom surplus it was a PROJECTED surplus.
Funny. Bush said we had a $1 trillion surplus. He never said anything about it being "a phantom."
> In
> case you can't figure it out, projected means
> predicted, not actual. In 1998, the Clinton
> administration projected this surplus would occur
> in 2008. It assumed all factors would remain
> constant. Since the Clinton administration
> predicted that number, there was the tech
> meltdown, accounting scandels, 9/11, Katrina, the
> complete reorganization and augmentation of the
> federal government to respond to the increased
> demand for security. We also had the Bush
> administration warnings go unheeded by Congress
> regarding the GSEs. Simply put, the trillion
> dollars existed in the minds of Clinton's OMB.
> Not even the CBO at the time predicted the
> trillion.
Things would have stayed more constant if Al Gore had been President and not the Bush Family's answer to Gilligan.