The 2001 Heritage foundation Prediction...

[Playinghardball]

To quote the Greatest President GOP ever gave us: " "Fool me once, shame on ....you; Fool me twice, shame on me"

[asjr]

1. Actually I think GWB even screwed that up. He put in "can't fool me" somewhere in that saying.

[gkhouston]

2. IIRC, it was "fool me twice.... won't get fooled again." n/t

[asjr]

4. Yep, that's it!

[jimlup]

8. That was because Bush was a self-serving robot running a program

which prevented him from ever saying anything bad about himself. Thus he almost said "shame on me" but realized right before saying it that that would be saying something bad about himself.

What a charlatan.

[Strelnikov_]

9. Yep, reverted back to a drunken Who sing-along n/t

[pinboy3niner]

3. It's on youtube:

[Playinghardball]

5. Here is the video

It's the last segment of this clip

[ThoughtCriminal]

6. "Think" Tank

Yeah, right. It's not thinking when they start with the conclusion and work backwards.

[HiPointDem]

7. k&r. the country should be reminded of bush's broken promises at every opportunity.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

10. Had he created a debt by 2001 already?

Wasn't there a surplus when he was given the office, I thought it was going to war that brought the debt. Had he destroyed the surplus before that?

[hughee99]

11. The debt is the total amount owed

from all years combined. The debt had been around for more than 100 years.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

13. What was the "Surplus" we had when Clinton left office?

OMG, A little search brings this page:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_surplus_did_the_US_have_when_Clinton_left_office
Clinton ran deficits throught all 8 years of his term, and one can go to the US Treasury Department and looking through the history of the total outstanding debt through Clintons term.

Every year Clinton was in office, the total national debt continued to climb.

How Clinton managed to claim a surplus was that while the general operating budgets ran deficits but Clinton borrowed from numerous off budget funds to make the on budget fund a surplus.

For example, in 2000, Clinton claimed a $230B surplus, but Clinton borrowed
$152.3B from Social Security
$30.9B from Civil Service Retirement Fund
$18.5B from Federal Supplementary Medical insurance Trust Fund
$15.0B from Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund
$9.0B from the Federal Unemployment Trust Fund
$8.2B from Military Retirement Fund
$3.8B from Transportation Trust Funds
$1.8B from Employee Life Insurance & Retirement fund
$7.0B from others

Total borrowed from off budget funds $246.5B, meaning that his $230B surplus is actually a $16.5B deficit.
($246.5B borrowed - $230B claimed surplus = $16.5B actual deficit).


Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_surplus_did_the_US_have_when_Clinton_left_office#ixzz27zW2MmYk

[hughee99]

14. The deficit is year to year. The debt is the total accumulated amount of deficits over the years.

Clinton's "surplus" meant that we were taking in more than we were spending THAT YEAR. This relates to the debt because if you wanted to pay the debt down, you'd have to first run a surplus and then apply the extra to paying off debt.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. Reminds me of the poster I made....

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We need to keep reminding America of Bush.

[Berlum]

15. Republican FAIL

They are just out to screw Americans, aren't they?