Clinton never came close to balancing the budget and raised the national
debt by a third or more. Raising the debt and not balancing the budget is
something he had in common with every other administration. Has nothing to
do with Democrat or Republican. The knee jerk blaming of the 'other side' of
the coin argument is meaningless. It's still the same coin. He also
refunded the national debt with short term, high interest bonds instead of
long term low interest bonds and and fudged the unemployment figures. .
...let's see. . .funded the Mexican bail out with the social security fund
and the railroad retirement fund Most of that money never left the US
though but went to pay off the loaning institutions such as the home
corporation of the then Treasury Secretary. Bet his stocks didn't suffer.
But on balance . . .. So what? Does it matter? Not really.

Carter . . . carter .. . carter . . oh yes wasn't he the one who presided
over double digit inflation, was more despised by the military than was
Clinton and holds the record for screwing up more foreign policy than any
other President in memory ('cept maybe Ford) ... thought so. Sorry, ten
nukes means little to me. How they got the ten nukes is of some
importance though. The fact that they (North Korea) even exists as a
government and how that happened has meaning to me. Bullets, bombs,
landmines, and seamines mean a great deal to me but I've managed to dodge
them all through the years ('cept for two). I guess you have to have been
there. Come to think of it the items in question were reportedly made by
out of scrap metal shipped to a supporter of the opposition under dear ole'
Tricky Dick. A pox on both your houses.

You are right about my pension and social security though. The one pitfall
of government employment, military, civilian, social security or otherwise
is this . . . . are you really going to get paid? Well so far so good ..
.. . Dec 1st is another question. Think that guy Rubin would loan some of
the money back?

Actually I have and abiding faith in the government Donkeys and Elephants
alike to keep the game going. They really don't have any other choice do
they?

And that's where I'll leave it . . .They really don't have any other choice.