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Originally Posted by joel  not sure what you need analyzed, i just read it and it's the same shit that has been spewed about this issue for the past several months
1. we had a surplus during the Clinton years... some based upon his policies and a lot based on the fact that the economy was flourishing |
oil at less than $20/bbl
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Originally Posted by joel xian takes acception to the fact that they list Cato as being conservative rather than libertarian. i take acception to the fact that they haven't given Obama even a full year to do things before trying to string him up like they did Bush even though Bush deserved it. |
The scale of spending is quite disparate and unsustainable. We went from terrible to unfathomable. That's worth taking note of. CATO was quite critical of the GOP spending duing his administration.