Cass Ballenger: “how soon we forget. President Clinton just 3 years ago proposed a five year budget that would have added $1.2 trillion…”

“how soon we forget. President Clinton just 3 years ago proposed a five year budget that would have added $1.2 trillion to the national debt. That is $200 billion deficits every year for as far as the eye could see. The Republicans said no. They said no to big government. They said no to using phony numbers. They said no to a national health care system that his own party admitted would have pushed the deficit into the stratosphere. So Congress insisted on passing a bipartisan budget that balanced and kept the lid on spending. Well here we go again. It is back to budget-busting time. Once again, it is going to be up to Congress to act like grownups and keep the lid on spending. The President's budget actually expands entitlement spending, puts the Medicare program in jeopardy only one year after we acted to save it, and goes back to tax increases that hurt the economy. Tax and spend, tax and spend. No matter how good the White House can spin it, and they are very good, this budget is a tax and spend budget that takes us in the wrong direction.”