On Oct 23, 12:25*am, "Bill McKee" wrote:

He did not leave a surplus! *The National debt did not go down.

he left a balanced budget which is more than the GOP can say

*The dot.com
bubble just poured more money in to the coffers than they could spend right
away.
*Lots of that money was committed to future spending, which is
hurting
us now.

gee you'd think that a GOP president and a GOP congress would have
fixed it...they had all the power.



*Same thing with California. *So much extra cash that the budget has
doubled in the last 8 years before now, and lots of that money was committed
as if the gobs of extra money was a permanent source. *Bosnia was and is a
disaster. *Still an ongoing disaster, and was a European problem. *Did not
concern us. *Somalia. *He refused the heavy tanks, etc that were requested.
Black Hawk down was a disaster because of no heavy armor. *

as was the war in iraq when bush fired gen. shinseki for asking for
more troops....



.. *Barrack is listening to some polls on the healthcare. *Those who
think they should have free healthcare. *Same ones who thought he was going
to pay their mortgage and put gas in the tank.

we have the most expensive and least efficient healthcare in the
world. socialized medicine seems to work in countries like the UK,
france, germany and canada. but the american right, wedded to the
failed idea of 'efficient markets' tells fairy tales about the economy
(see the recent article by MIT prof. simon johnson in the 'new
republic')