On 7/16/2025 7:01 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
Clinton reduced the deficit every year
he was in office, regardless of which party
controlled Congress. Who was the last "fiscal
conservative" Republican to do that?
Slick Willie reduced the deficit by selling our industrial base to
Singapore, Mexico, China, Taiwan and Malaysia. I may have left out a
few countries that benefited from the loss of millions of manufacturing
jobs and the factories that formerly employed them on Clinton's watch.
Ross Perot coined the term "A giant sucking sound" to describe just the
loss of American jobs to Mexico due to NAFTA.
On 7/16/25 9:50 PM, Dark Brandon wrote:
On 7/16/2025 7:01 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
Clinton reduced the deficit every year
he was in office, regardless of which party
controlled Congress. Who was the last "fiscal
conservative" Republican to do that?
Slick Willie reduced the deficit by selling our industrial base to
Singapore, Mexico, China, Taiwan and Malaysia. I may have left out a
few countries that benefited from the loss of millions of
manufacturing jobs and the factories that formerly employed them on
Clinton's watch. Ross Perot coined the term "A giant sucking sound" to
describe just the loss of American jobs to Mexico due to NAFTA.
Willie's 'reduction' was mostly ILLUSION as
you've noted. He sold all our manufacturing
abroad, he re-defined categories and shifted
assets around. Nothing was REALLY improved,
just LOOKED like it on the books.
Meanwhile, under Obama, "ketchup" labeled a vegetable so schools could
remain in compliance with USDA/FDA nutrition guidelines. If ever a
food needed to be classified as garbage, it would be the average US
school meal.
On 7/16/25 9:50 PM, Dark Brandon wrote:
On 7/16/2025 7:01 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
Clinton reduced the deficit every year
he was in office, regardless of which party
controlled Congress. Who was the last "fiscal
conservative" Republican to do that?
Slick Willie reduced the deficit by selling our industrial base to
Singapore, Mexico, China, Taiwan and Malaysia. I may have left out a
few countries that benefited from the loss of millions of manufacturing
jobs and the factories that formerly employed them on Clinton's watch.
Ross Perot coined the term "A giant sucking sound" to describe just the
loss of American jobs to Mexico due to NAFTA.
Willie's 'reduction' was mostly ILLUSION as
you've noted. He sold all our manufacturing
abroad, he re-defined categories and shifted
assets around. Nothing was REALLY improved,
just LOOKED like it on the books.
On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 21:54:22 -0600, Dark Brandon <[email protected]> wrote:
Very true. Flipping hamburgers at a fast food restaurant was defined as
a "manufacturing job" beginning with the Clinton Administration in an >>attempt to hide the loss of factory jobs in heavy industry.
Yet another lie promulgated by the right to make excuses for the
Republicans in the BUSINESS community who, following Reagan's lead,
exported jobs to maximize profits.
Reagan reclassified how unemployment would be counted in order to get
his unemployment number down.
Meanwhile, under Obama, "ketchup" labeled a vegetable so schools could
remain in compliance with USDA/FDA nutrition guidelines. If ever a
food needed to be classified as garbage, it would be the average US
school meal.
Clinton: ONE trillion.
Bush: SIX trillion.
That's not even math, it's simple arithmetic.
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