US of A government is that messed up?

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EDIT: ^^^^See below.

CrashMan said:

@insomniac17

 *Sigh*

ALL Politicians are liars. You think Bush hasn't lied? And he was far from an idiot. We had a budget surplus, a growing econmy, great foreign relations, positive domestic growth, improvement in government policies on the environment (all of which have been flushed down the toilet in 8 years,) and since the republicans in the Legislature couldn't find any POLICY problems with Clinton they went after his personal life.

*Sigh* The budget surpluses were due to the stock market bubble Clinton ignored and the short sighted "peace dividend" military cuts Clinton got.  The payment came due for both in 2001, luckily for Clinton just after he left office.  By the way, when did the "2001" recession start?  Oh yeah, in 2000 when Clinton was still president.  As for economic growth we've grown almost as fast under Bush as Clinton which is just fine because the 90's was the last big decade of growth in the US labor market (that is our natural growth rate has declined for secular reasons out of the control of a president since to his credit Clinton signed Welfare Reform in 1996).  Great international relations, bleh, I'm already tired of this and I still have one other poster to reply to but suffice it to say they weren't so great and the as before the holiday from history Clinton practised has cost us ever since.