Originally posted by stlhdh2o:

Remember a lil thing called a surplus?-H20

Do you remember a lil' thing called 9/11/01?

It was the eplosion of computer software, the internet, dot com's and tele-communications that fuled the sky-rocketing stock market, the economy and amount of taxes paid by businesses and individuals. Someone as anti-business as Dennis Kuscinich, Phil Donahue or even John "Pierre" Kerry could have been president and we would have had surplus'.
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Welll....clinton somehow managed to maintain the readiness of our forces AND keep the budget in the black.--H20

I'm not sure how implementing 'don't assk-don't tell' helped to maintain the readines of our forces.....butt ---

Clinton also managed to refuse to take the CIA's suggestion to take out Osama bin Laden, and respond to the first attack on the World Trade Center, USS Cole and other overt acts of terrorism against America and Americans. This complacency lead Osama bin Laden to think we were a "paper tiger" that refused to fight. That complacency cost us 1000's of American lives and billions of dollars in fighting the war on terror.

The fact that Clinton was too busy playing "hide the cigar" to address the growing terrorist threat is what enboldened OBL and his hench-men to plan and execute the 9/11/01 attacks.

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Tell ya what....I'll give credit to Bush Sr. for getting that ball rolling by increasing taxes--H20

That's right, increasing taxes is always the answer.