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Thursday, March 24, 2011

"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"

Remember that now-old movie line from Tom Cruise's character?

Well, it applies to too many of us Americans when it comes to our national budget deficit spending.

To wit:

Think and assume that Republicans are the ones who are good at cutting budgets and deficit spending?

Think again:

"Dwight Eisenhower was last Republican President to preside over a balanced budget. He had a balanced budget in 1956 and 1957.
Since then, there have been two presidents to preside over balanced budgets, LBJ in 1969 and Clinton in 1998 through 2001.
During the last 40 years there have been five budget surpluses, all five were under Democratic Presidents: 1969, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001.
As we joked when we were kids at home:  "Hurts, don' it?"

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