From: mdl@cypress.com (Matt Landrum)
Subject: The New Budget Revelations (was  PeroT & United We Stand)
Organization: Cypress Semiconductor Southeast Design Center
	<1730@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:53:34 GMT

In article <1730@blue.cis.pitt.edu> psg+@pitt.edu (Paul S Galvanek) writes:

   >
   >And to top all, George Stephanopolous on the news this morning: "The
   >deficit numbers are a lot worse than we thought they were...and they're
   >getting worse"
   Well, well, well, George is that right, worse than you guys thought?
   By now most informed people have read or heard about "THE" article
   that appeared in last Friday's New York Times concerning the cabinet
   appointments and Clinton's first broken promise.  This however is
   better by far, the following is a few few paragraphs from the latest
   issue of Time (art. Moving Toward Gridlock II 1-18-93) that addresses
   the Clinton teams claim to not know the extent of the deficit.  It
   is a generally informative article and I'd suggest reading it, though
   Clinton supporters probably won't like their lord and masters lies
   being exposed in print...

   Time January 18 1993

Yes, they sound exactly like Reagan's boys when they finally got a look
at some of the details and the hocus pocus involved in the budget.  If you
don't believe it's easy to sling the BS concerning the budget and projected
deficits, read the book by Reagan's old OMB director, David Stockman
(The Triumph of politics).  You might then get a notion of how screwed
it is and how both parties lie and manipulate projections in all manner
of ways.  I have forgotten the exact quote but Stockman indicated that if the 
SEC regulated this, most of the executive branch would be in the pen.

   Moving Toward Gridlock II - Micheal Kramer

   "... Backing off on his promise to cut the White House staff 25% (which
   he appears to be doing), 

I guess I've missed this one.  I knew he had backed off asking Congress
to do  this.

   or asserting his highest regard for Washington's
   public schools while enrolling his daughter in a private academy, is 
   small-bore stuff-par for the course and unremarkable.  

no comment

   But Clinton is
   breaking new ground when it comes to the deficit.  The President-elect's
   insistance that the latest debt numbers are news to him-that he is a
   victim whose best intentions may fall before a new reality-is chutzpah
   writ large."

Oh, I'm sure nothing was done by the Bush administration to make the deficit
look better than it really was.  Why Carter and Reagan never did that!
(sarcasm)

   "    Until now, Clinton has reveled in a gift few ever enjoy-the ability
   to be at the very center of the action while at the same time being above
   it, critiquing the problem without bearing any responsibility for it.  

he's as responsible as the rest of us voters

   That he has so far been able to straight-facedly blame George Bush for
   hiding the truth is a wonder to behold.  For as TIME has previously 
   reported, Clinton knew the numbers were getting worse long before the
   election-and knew as well that his campaign plan was fraught with faulty
   assumptions and overoptimistic revenue and spending projections.  That
   was fine for then-no one caught on, and Clinton won-..."

I wouldn't doubt it.

   Didn't know, HA!  And the best part - Time and the New York Times 
   supported this guy, they're supposed to be his friends *snicker*

so much for the liberalMediaBias I guess


[an aside] Hey Paul! Is all you can do tear down?  You seem to love
posting to this group, but never post to the Bush newsgroup.  Tell the
truth.  You are not going to say one positve constructive thing about
any Democrat.  That's fine by me, but you shouldn't fool yourself into
think you're changing any minds.  I guess your like Brother Bill, better
at pointing fingers.
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