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Old 09-11-06, 02:35 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by bradclark1
I believe republicans do that because Clinton was twice the president then Bush is.
That just my opinion however.

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During the administration of William Jefferson Clinton, the U.S. enjoyed more peace and economic well being than at any time in its history. He was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term. He could point to the lowest unemployment rate in modern times, the lowest inflation in 30 years, the highest home ownership in the country's history, dropping crime rates in many places, and reduced welfare rolls. He proposed the first balanced budget in decades and achieved a budget surplus. As part of a plan to celebrate the millennium in 2000, Clinton called for a great national initiative to end racial discrimination.
After the failure in his second year of a huge program of health care reform, Clinton shifted emphasis, declaring "the era of big government is over." He sought legislation to upgrade education, to protect jobs of parents who must care for sick children, to restrict handgun sales, and to strengthen environmental rules.

In the world, he successfully dispatched peace keeping forces to war-torn Bosnia and bombed Iraq when Saddam Hussein stopped United Nations inspections for evidence of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. He became a global proponent for an expanded NATO, more open international trade, and a worldwide campaign against drug trafficking. He drew huge crowds when he traveled through South America, Europe, Russia, Africa, and China, advocating U.S. style freedom.
or read it here http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/bc42.html
They left out the fact that it takes 8 years for a presidents policy to affect things like that. So for economy to housing, that was either Bush or Regan's policies that affected that. Right now, we have an OK economy, and that is the result of Mr. Clinton. So he did OK. I like how even Bush claims this is his doing, as has every pres before him including Clinton, but it is really not. Only when Bush leaves office will we begin to see the results of his policy on the long term economy.

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