John McCain says:
My friends, my fellow Americans, the Democrats want to raise your taxes, and if you elect them they will do exactly that. Both Democratic candidates for president have said that they will eliminate President Bush's tax cuts. But, my friends, I plan to leave the trillion dollars that the repeal would generate in the hands of the American people.
If he were honest, John McCain would say:
My friends, over the course of the last several decades we have built up an enormous public debt. We all - Republicans, Democrats and the American electorate - have contributed to building that debt. In the past eight years alone we have almost doubled an already onerous national economic burden.
Like all debts, those that we built must be paid. My friends, paying the debt will be painful, make no mistake. But someone must pay it. The question we face today is "Who will pay the debt that you and I have built over our voting lives?" Will we step up, face the consequences of our past economic mistakes and take responsibility for repaying that obligation, or will we leave it for today's children, tomorrow's voters?
That question is one we, the voters, face in November's presidential election. Who will pay the debt, you and I or the children?
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I remember 5 or 6 freshmen Republicans who refused to sign the budget until it was balanced.
I remember President Clinton and the rest of the Democrats chastizing the evil Republicans for shutting down the government, I remember the Republicans imploring those 5 or 6 freshmen Republicans ' please sign the bill, the Democrats are calling us bad names! Oh please sign the bill!'
I remember those 5 or 6 freshmen Republicans standing their ground until the budget was balanced.
You can try and give Bill Clinton the credit, but history shows he doesn't deserve it.
Then there is that pesky little world war on terror we are fighting that could be causing a bit of an expenditure for our country.
And where are those "pesky" Republicans today? When we are swimming in debt, and only Democrats are decrying the size of the deficit? The Republicans are all toeing the party line, more money for Iraq, tax cuts for the rich!
You can't spin this one, Don. Your party is bankrupting our nation and wasting the lives or our kids on a senseless and immoral war.
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The solution eliminates taxes altogether along with several other unpleasant aspects of our current society.
I don't have time to go into this now, but in my opinion, we need a reformed economy that factors the environment and human well-being into its indicators.
Bert,
What else are they going to say? It's an election year it's all about deamonizing your opponent.
BTW those 5-6 freshmen republicans probably threw up their hands in futility and fell right in line with all of the rest of the politicians from both sides of the aisle, the point is Bill Clinton did nothing to deserve praise for balancing the budget.
It's no clearer Bert.
Clinton called for more spending and it was Republicans who denied him and now Clinton supporters are saying look how President Clinton balanced the budget. that's not a political reality it is dishonest. It is a Lie.
But then again can't expect much more from liberals.
President Bush attempts to raise the debt while never doing a thing for the country on the domestic front. He seems to think that bailing out failing companies is more important than dealing with our problems right here at home.
Clinton's Presidency had the longest continuous economic expansion in the nation's history, and in his first term, Democrats had majorities in both houses of Congress.
You can try to spin this any way you like, but Democrats gave us balanced budgets and economic expansion. I love it when you guys try to spin Democratic successes by giving Republicans credit for them. But the facts are, the largest budget deficits in the history of our nation have come under three Republican Presidents...Reagan and the Bushes.
Try to spin THAT one! (I'm sure you'll try.)
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"we need a reformed economy that factors the environment and human well-being into its indicators. "