Blackwell
2009-03-20 17:18:52
#67: Anon: Clinton deserves some credit, but it wasn’t primarily him: The end of the cold war’s big military budgets and the GOP controlled congress from 1994-2000 left that “surplus” such as it was. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity to control the budget and it worked to a degree.
But I don’t disagree with you about Bush: from 2000 on Bush and Congress went on probably the most irresponsible spending bender in history. The party that had some history of spending control got drunk with the rest of them. Bad news for all of us.
