Edwynn -> RE: Why Obama scares conservatives. (11/3/2012 3:32:01 PM)
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ORIGINAL: flyhumbleguy Doesn't Clinton tout his balanced budgets/surpluses as well as economic growth, much of it attributed to these very same compromises? Last I checked, growth and surpluses were desirable where as recessions and deficits not as much. You ARE kidding, right? "... much of (the budget surplus) attributed to these very same compromises"? I've yet to see any attribution, from either political party, or from any economic studies, of that budget surplus as being result of the nation having a few thousand more Molly Maids, commensurate with a few thousand young poor women yanked out of the community colleges where they had theretofore been learning new skills that would have better prepared them for the work force, thereby decreasing the odds of their need for government assistance in the future, and better positioning the US to compete with other countries. Nor could anyone else see how the 'compromise' (caving in) to the banking/financial interests that occurred with the Financial Services Modernization Act (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) and the Commodities Futures Modernization Act, occurring in 1999 and 2000, respectively, could have had anything to do with a budget surplus occurring 2-4 years earlier, though both Acts certainly have everything to do with the destruction of a great amount of the wealth of the nation occurring from 2007 to the present, and the yet unforeseen future, and much distress and turmoil to a large swath of the middle class, not to mention completely wiping out many of lower incomes. Oh yeah, and after the huge deficit incurred by the US' wars on countries-with-oil, we then turned the financial sector on our own citizens, and the f*ckwits who clamored for all that are now whining about the even further increased deficits due to their own actions. You force poor young women out of good training at the local community college, force them to be Molly Maids, and the the few who, by some miracle, happen to stumble upon a deal to get a house, then have it ripped away from them. This ain't "trickle down," folks, this is a full-on hosing. Yes, the poor are poor only because they are just lazy. Repeat that mantra, and sleep well.
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