Of course Bill Clinton had a surplus he depleted our millitary&Bush had to spend billions 2 rebuild.Remember?

Question

Of course Bill Clinton had a surplus he depleted our millitary&Bush had to spend billions 2 rebuild.Remember?

Answer 1

No one will remember until it is too late.  Sad but true.  We as a nation and world are entering a time of great passiveness of the masses, willing to wear blinders, and not respond to aggression for fear of destruction.  

The instant news has helped in the view we have of the world.

We the WESTERN Civilization especially is afraid of its own shadow, and ashamed of its past accomplishments, even though the world and the masses of people have advanced greatly during this time.  But...somewhere along the line, we feel and I use the word feel because that is what this next generation is going to be based on, feelings, emotions, and not getting hurt, etc, we feel it is best to just let whatever is happening happen.  In the meantime, the world and we will suffer beyond our wildest dreams.  

Answer 2

Why don't we give all our money to the military? Forget about all the issues here at home. Maybe, we should just give all Americans guns and asked them to fend for themselves. At least they'll be 'ready'.

I do remember those years. The real fact is I felt safer then than I do now.

Answer 3

I remember, and thanks for reminding others of this.  

Answer 4

That didn't happen. (Remember congress?)

Do you remember traitors bush & cheney standing by doing NOTHING as terrorists attacked the USA and murdered Americans on 9/11?

I certainly do, the world saw it on tv...LIVE.

Answer 5

Shhh...don't give facts and truth!  You'll be ridiculed by all those Clinton supporters who love to gloat over the "smoke & mirrors" surplus.

Answer 6

yes...I do remember...he left barracks with toilets that didn't work to pay for social programs....and cut the Air Force standing Wing allotment by over 3/4...but of course Midnight Basketball had to have funding

Answer 7

Yes, I do remember that.  He cut back on

troops, ammunition, and anything else the

military uses. Bush, then, did have to rebuild

to keep America strong and ready.

Answer 8

Billions is a very far cry from the trillions this administration has borrowed. Our great, great grand children will be paying for this war. Sickening.

Answer 9

Your mistaken.  Military spending was over 270 billion a year even during the Clinton years.

Table 1: US military spending as a percentage of world military spending, 1985--1999 (data from WMEAT)

Year US WMEAT 1996 WMEAT 1998 WMEAT 1999--2000

World US as

percent

of world World US as

percent

of world World US as

percent

of world

1985 258.2 971 26.6 NA NA

1986 280.9 1018.2 27.6 NA NA

1987 288.2 1050.8 27.4 1040 27.7 NA

1988 293.1 1080.2 27.1 1070 27.4 NA

1989 304.1 1089 27.9 1070 28.4 1050 29

1990 306.2 1105.6 27.7 1090 28.1 1060 28.9

1991 280.3 1048.8 26.7 1010 27.8 991 28.3

1992 305.1 973.8 31.3 856 35.6 834 36.6

1993 297.6 912.3 32.6 819 36.3 798 37.3

1994 288.1 878.8 32.8 813 35.4 787 36.6

1995 277.8 864.5 32.1 798 34.8 772 36

1996 271 NA 810 33.5 785 34.5

1997 276 NA 842 32.8 815 33.9

1998 274 NA NA 821 33.4

1999 281 NA NA 852 33

http://www.truthandpolitics.org/military...

Answer 10

Here's where the surplus came from.

Here. This is from the Congressional Budget Office from March 1999. How Clinton reduced the debt and increased it at the same time. Wait a second you can't reduce it and increase it at the same time. Right. He increased at the expense of Social Security.

Yesterday the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its preliminary re estimate of the White House budget. This follows the Joint Committee on Taxation's (JCT) re estimate of the Clinton White House's tax provisions last week. Together, CBO and JCT are Congress' official estimators -- nonpartisan entities that Clinton himself promised to use when he first took office back in 1993.

President Clinton has promised to protect Social Security, to reduce the debt to the maximum extent possible, to control spending, and reduce taxes. But, Congress' official estimators show that on all four counts, the President's budget fails. Instead, Clinton's budget raids the Social Security trust fund for $158 billion in five years, it artificially erases the surplus, it lowers the public debt less than doing nothing would, it increases spending, and it raises taxes by $89.7 billion over the 1999-2009 period.

Clinton Raids Social Security: According to CBO, Clinton spends $40 billion of the Social Security surplus in his budget's first year (2000) and $158 billion over the first five years (2000-2004).

This is the same Social Security surplus that he has promised to save in its entirety.

This is the biggest reason S.S. is in trouble.

Additional: Buttercup is correct. I am a retired Police Officer and I belonged to a Nation organization of Police Officers that collected 9mm ammo and donated to the military because they did not have any. Our planes used for our defense had no spare parts. We had no aircraft carrier in the Pacific and pilots left the Air Force in droves. Our military people were on food stamps.

See the thumbs down. This is the problem. The Left does not want facts that accurately describes history nor will they learn from it. It is like the convention that is being televised. Every four years the Democrats promise the moon, all they need to do is raise taxes. It has never produced anything. The poor have voted for the Democrats for fifty years and they are still poor.

Answer 11

http://www.letxa.com/articles/16

The Myth of the Clinton Surplus    

Answer 12

No.  Bill Clinton had billions because the ECONOMY was moving in the right direction, remember?