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Oh James!
The Balance Budgets of Clinton were!
Produced by a Conservative Senate and Congress that said if it isn't Balanced we'll vetoe it. The Same could be said of all budgets. Remember all budgets have to be approved by the Houses of Congress. They are as instrumental in the make up of the budget process as the Presidents themselves. Your statics mean very little until analized by the make-up of congress at the time. Most Republican presidents served as minority presidents (the Senate and the House were Democrat) which means they often forced an unbalanced budget. So Clinton's balanced budgets were really Republican Budgets forced upon a minority President. Keith |
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Re: My, how creative
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There you go again, James
With your erudite background I was sure it was not necessary to spell out my take on Desert Storm. Let me try again. Many Democrats were talking about all the body bags that would be filled as a result of an armed assault on Iraq?s ?fourth largest army in the world? and were wetting their pants because of the prophecy that it would be the ?mother of all battles?, our choppers would not work in the sand, the Bradley Fighting Vehicle was a piece of crap, etc. Being optimistic I was praying we would only loose a battalion worth of line troops. If we had lost a brigade or division due to regular combat or chemical weapons many people, especially on the left would have been calling for Bush?s head. Around here we had war protesters who turned out ever day in town commons, protesters making a human blockade in front of the main gate at Westover Air Force Base, people burning the American flag at least on weekends. Bush Sr. won the stated goals of the war, cool. You know what happens once the mission is changed after troops are committed, it usually turns into a cluster. I site Black Hawk Down, not to mention Vietnam as examples of the many times when the mission was changed after the troops were pulling the trigger.
James, you seem to have gotten me all wrong on our politics towards Cuba. That nation has self-imposed communism, let them wallow in it. The worst thing we could do is become active in trying to overthrow Castro using anything but words and images. Now we can point to Cuba, to the rest of the Western Hemisphere and say, sure things aren?t perfect but do you see any boat loads of people going THERE? It would be fine if Cuba remained communist for the next generation. We could turn it into sort of a zoo. People could go there on tours to see why capitalism is a good idea. Of course we have helped Cuba to be poor, that?s our job: to show the rest of the world democracy and capitalism works and other systems don?t work as well. Malaise? Did you really use the word Malaise? Is there a better word to describe the failed policies of Jimmy Carter? Cuba is in a malaise alright. They have a leader who is Carter times 10 when it comes to running an economy. Castro is like the kid you never liked in high school. And when he was having a bad day and threatened to jump off a bridge you said, "go for it, who knows, you might fly". Stay healthy, Andy |
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Geez,James
You talk sa if there were a naval blockade in place to starve Castro.He`s free to trade with any country in the world. When the USSR went kaput,along with it went any hope that Castro might have had of economic solvency.Socialist European countries won`t deal with him any more because he`s got a huge debt to them that he can`t,or won`t repay. As the noose tightens around the neck of one of the most repressive regimes in the world,we`ll see just how much the Cuban people love Castro and his cajones.Dubya said that until those people have free and fair elections,the embargo stays put,and I agree.Right now it would seem to me that Castro has but a few choices for survival, with the best case scenario being freeing his people,and the worst-aligning himself with the Chicoms.If Carter`s visit nudges ole Fidel toward a democratic government..GREAT! If not,then all he has done is to further the appearance of a weakened and divided America to our long,and growing daily,list of enemies.
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Grandkid's question
The following is from the 'Dirty Digs" colomn of my small town paper. the article was written by Pete Cottle. "Six year old Drew, my oldest grandson had something he wanted to talk about. He had a world globe and, having seen the movie" Pearl Harbor" asked me to show him who was fighting who in WWII. You gotta understand that he is a bright and inquisitive kid who believes most of what his grandfather tells him. So we went over the globe pointing out the good guys and the bad guys in WWII. Had to be confusing to him to be told the Germans and Japenese are now are friends. then we took the history a little further, pointing out that Americans had fought in Korea, VietNam, the Middle East and now Afganistan. Then he looked at me with those sincere eyes and asked, with who knows what running thru his mind, asked a question that broke my heart: "You mean the war never ends?" What do you say to that , what do you say to a six year old? God, what a sad commentary on the human race."
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