Here is what I do know. The USA, essentially, had a balanced budget at the end of Bubba Clinton's presidency. The Republican party, then, single-handedly pisssed it all away. Let's see, social engineering project in Iraq, nation building in Afghanistan, pork barrel spending explosion, No Child Left Behind, ethanol mandates, Medicare Prescription, Faith Based Initiatives, airline bailout, auto bailout, insurance company bailout, Wall Street bailout, federally regulated bank bailout and federally UN- regulated bank bailout. And all paid for with our precious George W. Bush tax cut. Who said "when the Iraqis stand up, we can stand down"? How long ago did he say it?

Folks, let's please take a tough look at the debt. Can't we all agree that we had close to a balanced budget at the end of Bubba Clinton's presidency? Can't we all agree that George W. Bush had a 'Reign of Error?' The Republicans started a long term social engineering project in Iraq. NOT PAID FOR. The Republicans started a long term nation building project in Afghanistan. NOT PAID FOR. The Republicans added another socialist wealth-redistributive Medicare Prescription program on our already largely government run health care structure. NOT PAID FOR. Don't we need a tax to pay for all of this Republican spending that persists to this day? How should it be paid for?

Folks, let's please take a tough look at the debt. Can't we all agree that we had close to a balanced budget at the end of Bubba Clinton's presidency? Can't we all agree that George W. Bush had a 'Reign of Error?' The Republicans started a long term social engineering project in Iraq. NOT PAID FOR. The Republicans started a long term nation building project in Afghanistan. NOT PAID FOR. The Republicans added another socialist wealth-redistributive Medicare Prescription program on our already largely government run health care structure. NOT PAID FOR. Don't we need a tax to pay for all of this Republican spending that persists to this day? How should it be paid for?

Proof of those Clinton surpluses from Milton Friedman, a conservative economist. Two minutes into the video Milton Friedman discusses the budget surpluses, Republicans now deny. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4699699033141200241# A synopsis of Uncommon Knowledge - The Federal Surplus with Milton Friedman "For several years now, for the first time in decades, the federal budget has been running surpluses--big surpluses. This year, the federal surplus is expected to exceed $280 billion. What should the federal government do with all that money? Pay down its debt? Invest it? With us today, Milton Friedman. Dr. Friedman is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution."

Proof of those Clinton surpluses from Milton Friedman, a conservative economist. Two minutes into the video Milton Friedman discusses the budget surpluses, Republicans now deny. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4699699033141200241# A synopsis of Uncommon Knowledge - The Federal Surplus with Milton Friedman "For several years now, for the first time in decades, the federal budget has been running surpluses--big surpluses. This year, the federal surplus is expected to exceed $280 billion. What should the federal government do with all that money? Pay down its debt? Invest it? With us today, Milton Friedman. Dr. Friedman is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution."

Republicans in 2011 want to give cover to their atrocious record on fiscal policy often say Bubba Clinton had no surpluses. However, even conservative economists knew there were surpluses as far as the eye could see. Let's do an examination. Originally published in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL- Tuesday, November 4, 1997- Don't Waste the Budget Surplus - By Martin Feldstein. http://www.nber.org/feldstein/wj110797.html Of course Republican ideologues will never acknowledge that the Republican Party changed the fiscal course of the USA from surpluses forever in 2001, to deficits forever in 2011.

Proof positive of those Clintonian budget surpluses. The following is an excerpt from Governor George W. Bush's 2000 'American Dream' GOP Party Platform: "Over a five year period, as surpluses continue to grow, we will return half a trillion dollars to the taxpayers who really own it, without touching the Social Security surplus. We are also determined to protect Medicare and to pay down the national debt. Reducing that debt is both a sound policy goal and a moral imperative." That dream had turned the USA into a pile of rubble (remember the fall of 2008?) and we have all seen how our country had nearly been destroyed by George Bush's eight year "Reign of Error." GOOGLE IT!

Proof positive of those Clintonian budget surpluses. The following is an excerpt from Governor George W. Bush's 2000 'American Dream' GOP Party Platform: "Over a five year period, as surpluses continue to grow, we will return half a trillion dollars to the taxpayers who really own it, without touching the Social Security surplus. We are also determined to protect Medicare and to pay down the national debt. Reducing that debt is both a sound policy goal and a moral imperative." That dream had turned the USA into a pile of rubble (remember the fall of 2008?) and we have all seen how our country had nearly been destroyed by George Bush's eight year "Reign of Error." GOOGLE IT!

Conservatives should read Paul O'Neill's book 'Price of Loyalty,' George W. Bush's first Secretary of the Treasury. From, http://thepriceofloyalty.ronsuskind.com/thebushfiles/archives/cat_from_the_book.html Page 261 - Inside the Debt Crisis of 2002 (11 pages) In the summer of 2002, below-forecast tax receipts forced the Bush administration to ask Congress to raise the federal government's debt ceiling. Only a year earlier, the government had been in surplus, but tax cuts, war, and a slowing economy had turned the surplus into deficit. O'Neill warned that consequences of failing to raise the debt ceiling "are too serious to contemplate."

Conservatives should read Paul O'Neill's book 'Price of Loyalty,' George W. Bush's first Secretary of the Treasury. From, http://thepriceofloyalty.ronsuskind.com/thebushfiles/archives/cat_from_the_book.html Page 261 - Inside the Debt Crisis of 2002 (11 pages) In the summer of 2002, below-forecast tax receipts forced the Bush administration to ask Congress to raise the federal government's debt ceiling. Only a year earlier, the government had been in surplus, but tax cuts, war, and a slowing economy had turned the surplus into deficit. O'Neill warned that consequences of failing to raise the debt ceiling "are too serious to contemplate."