Remember this? It’s the future Bush stole from us.

[kpete]

Remember this? It’s the future Bush stole from us.
by sostos
Wed Nov 17, 2010 at 11:05:04 AM PST

I ran across an old website yesterday. At 10 years old, it is ancient, at least in internet terms. I’m surprised it still exists, actually: It’s so old, in fact, that it looks to have been optimized for 800x600 screen resolution. The page is from President Clinton’s White House website, and it contains a plan--an alternate future, really--of what might have been, had George W. Bush not been handed the presidency by the SCOTUS in 2000.

Have a look if you want
http://clinton4.nara.gov/...
http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/new/html/Fri_Dec_29_151111_2000.html

The headline from that website reads:

December 28, 2000
Today, President Clinton will announce that The United States is on course to eliminate its public debt within the next decade.

That sick feeling you have in the pit of your stomach right now is George W. Bush's gift to you, to me, and to every other American. Arguably it is his greatest legacy as President. Remember that when you see him on Good Morning America hawking "Decision Points". Imagine where we would be today had Bush not "decided" to change course, and abandon President Clinton's policy of fiscal responsibility.

Look at this chart, which comes from the US Federal Budget from 2001:

more:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/11/17/921327/-Remember-this-Its-the-future-Bush-stole-from-us.

[bahrbearian]

1. I don't understand the debate.

Repel the tax cuts is the largest tax increase in history? Really I thought Chimpy's tax cuts were because we had a Surplus, now we have a deficit , so we need them now more that ever? Really

[toddwv]

2. The last thing that the Right wants to do is eliminate the debt and/or deficit.

Their stated goal is to "starve the beast". Their agenda centers around running the US federal government into the ground by bankrupting it so that they can destroy social programs, dismantle it completely and be left to their little "Christianist" fiefdoms.

[SharonAnn]

3. What they really want to do is "feed their greed". The "starve the beast" meme

is just a spin doctor's cover for what they're doing.

Really.

They want government to support them, their businesses, subsidize their costs, and help them feed their greed. They just don't want government to help anybody else.

[OhioBlue]

4. what a punch in the stomach. n/t