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andy
Lv 7
andy asked in Politics & GovernmentGovernment · 1 decade ago

Wow is Harry Reid an idiot? He says that during the Clinton years the Democrats see more?

Paid down the debt which is not true. During the Clinton years they reduced deficit spending but never too it to the positive. He also is currently saying on Face the Nation that we can't cut any programs at all but we need to reduce deficits. Makes no sense at all. Finally, he says that there are things we can cut but doesn't go into what they are. To me this is irresponsibility on the part of Harry Reid and the Democrat Senators.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    You had me in your corner with your first sentence -- Harry Reid is an idiot. As far as things he says we can cut, I doubt cowboy poetry is one of them.

  • 1 decade ago

    You are wrong, Reed is right.

    See http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/during_the_c...

    "But even if we remove Social Security from the equation, there was a surplus of $1.9 billion in fiscal 1999 and $86.4 billion in fiscal 2000."

    or go to http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/108xx/doc10871/Historic... and look at the years 1998 through 2001. You'll see the rightmost column, Debt held by Public, drops during those Clinton years.

    Clinton gave us a balanced budget and a great economy, and he started it all with a tax increase. The beginning of the Bush idiocy was to cut taxes without cutting spending. The "supply side" revenue increses never showed up, did they?

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  • 1 decade ago

    President Clinton signed into law the largest deficit reduction plan in history, resulting in over $600 billion in deficit reduction.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    possibly someone ought to ask Harry about the 4.5 million which will be killed by potential of abortion over the subsequent 3 years. even as they are at it ask him what percentage unlawful immigrants die each and every minuet even as they don't look paying a rattling element and he sits round saying our well-being care expenses are to intense.

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