"John" wrote in message
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"Calif Bill" wrote in message

And 2007? And the years before 2000? The only reason that the Clinton
years were a near balanced budget is the reduced spending by the
Republican's under Newt for a couple of years and the obscene amount of
money coming into Government coffers from the dot.bomb debacle. Came in
faster than they could increase spending. Part of the debt for the last
7 years was all the new programs instituted during those years. As I
stated, Congress has to pass any spending bill, and both sides of the
aisle have overspent for most of my 65 years of life. Sure the debt has
increased greatly during the last 7 years, but is was immense before
those 7 years. As I stated. How cas we elect anybody from Congress as
Potus is idiocy!


Again you should check the facts. Before Reagan, the national debt was
less than 1 trillion dollars. He claimed we were drowning in debt and
something had to be done, so of course he tripled the debt! GH Bush
increased it by about another 2 trillion. While Clinton was in office the
debt went up another 1 trillion. GW Bush has driven it up another two
trillion. To put his in perspective: Democratic presidents are
responsible for 2 trillion of out national Debt and republicans are
responsible for 7 trillion.

Who's budget is it? The president sends a budget to the congress to
approve/disapprove or modify. The president still has veto power on any
budget. So Congress is responsible for the pork they pack on but it still
is the president's budget.
I went out to the treasury web site, you used to be able to get historical
data all the way back to before WW2 - not anymore! Think this
administration is trying to hide the miserable job it is/has done?

http://zfacts.com/p/318.html


The Executive branch sends a proposed budget to Congress. That ends that
part. Congress passes the spending bills it wants. The Executive Branch
budget is only a proposed spending plan. They do not get the budget back as
proposed. Then the Legislative Branch got a court ruling that if they
passed a spending bill, the money had to be spent. Up until then the
Executive branch just did not spend the extra money. Bush screwed the pooch
royally by not vetoing anything regarding spending for about 6 years. Learn
a little more about government workings and then come back here.