PSEUDO DEFICIT HAWKS BEWARE

As a hard core fiscal conservative, I've got to ask myself; where were all of you right wing 'deficit hawks' when President Bush squandered President Clinton's record budget surpluses? I don't recall seeing these baseless, factually inaccurate emails in my inbox then. All I saw was the right's perverted fixation with Clinton's private sex life and what the true definition of the word "is" is.

Yes, it is a fact that President Clinton inherited President George HW Bush's deficits. And, yes it is a fact that Clinton left office with a record surplus. Last but not least, yes it is a fact that bush quickly squandered that surplus away and left office with a record $438 BILLION deficit.

Below is a timeline that I copied from a previous blog post:

09-27-2000 - Clinton announced a federal budget surplus of $230 billion, the largest in US history (he had a $290 billion deficit when he took office and it was projected to be $455 billion in 2000)
02/02/2004 - Bush sent Congress a $2.4 trillion budget which included a record $521 billion deficit
10/07/2008 - US Budget deficit hits record $438 billion
10/09/2008 - Bush maxed out the National Debt Clock in Times Square


Now, ask yourself this; what is your true motivation behind sending this out? Are you going to send my reply out to all who received the original message? Very few do, but the information is out there for all to see, one only needs to open their eyes, and mind to see.

Cheers,

Bobby






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From: The Xxxxxxxxx's
Date: August 19, 2009 6:37:53 PM GMT-07:00
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Subject: COMING SOON!