However, now we are going to spend ourselves into oblivion. Just because Obama and the liberal congress are screwing up our country does not mean Bush did a good job. I am all for a thorough review of the Bush presidency from a historical perspective, (and don’t believe he will get a Truman-like vindication from historians and Chicago) but right now we need to focus on what the Congress and Obama are trying to do before we come out like Iceland.

Clinton NEVER had a surplus.

He came within 19 billion dollars ONE YEAR. That ain’t a surplus dude.

The dems claim a surplus but the fact is while Clinton reduced our federal spending the national debt increased EVERY SINGLE YEAR! Do your homework genius….. He borrowed from the Social Security Trust Fund to pay for his reductions. How can that possibly be considered a surplus? HE BORROWED THE MONEY…. HE INCREASED OUR NATIONAL DEBT!

I feel bad about Hammering so much on Reagan. I disagreed with his policies, but he did a lot to improve the mood of the country.

Re: FDR, True that his stimulus efforts were not enough to pull us out of the depression. It took WWII to do that. But, why did the war pull us out? Because it was an even bigger government stimulus. If I recall, we were spending something like 40% of GDP on the war. Huge deficit spending. That is what finally ended the depression. It suggests that he biggest problem with the stimulus, and the next one if we have it, is that it is not big enough. My biggest complaint about Obama to date is that he seems content to let congress figure these things out instead of taking a strong lead. Preserving political capital, but sometimes you have to use it.

Their writers steal others material and call it their own. They invent stories about political candidates and when the stories are proven to be false they refuse to retract.

They can’t afford the building they operate out of because they lose money hand over fist.

The polls they conduct are intentionally biased toward their politicians of choice.

They refuse to publish anything that is critical of the current administration.

The New York Times used to be, “The paper of record”. Not any more…. The NYT is just a sad, pathetic reason to stop chopping down trees.

You think that’s going to work this time?

Stimulus packages go to the states to jump-start spending. No one ever said the package would work this year, much less within the first 4 months of this year.

Bailouts go to fools who got us into trouble. Bailouts are what we gave the dumbazzes behind the S&L crisis 20 years ago and what we gave to more bankers last year.

atlanta Native, we can give Obama 40 years and he won’t abuse our country the way W did with just 8. Don’t forget – we had a suprlus when W took office before he gave it all out to the rich with his tax breaks.