My Grandma Couldn't Afford Her Meds. Under Clinton; I Told Her He was Great?

Question

My Grandma couldn't afford to buy her precriptions under Bill Clinton.

I told her that Bill Clinton was a great president.

She told me to go to he**.

My dad threatened to kick the living sh** out of me.

Grandma was in dire straits. But, Bill Clinton had his surplus.

Bill was a great president.

Who was right in their reactions? Me, my dad, or my grandma?

Answer 1

Let me get this straight...

Because Clinton was a great President, that infuriated you, and you wouldn't help your grandma get her medicine.

You are one heartless monster.

Answer 2

Wow thats something. So even though Hillary Clinton tried to introduce Universal Healthcare to the country, the Republican controlled Congress called her a "Socialist" , it was really her husband Bill who quashed that legislation? Are you sure it wasn't Ronald Reagan, who cut Medicare by 45% in his 2 Presidencies? Or maybe it was George Bush Sr, who campaigned on one simple fact "Read My Lips, No New Taxes", but then of course, as soon as he was elected, he raised the income tax and introduced 3 other taxes, including a new capital gains tax. Do you remember any of this or you just as shortsighted and unmindful of your party's history as every other Republican? When do you say you can't take the hypocracy anymore and actually do something which HELPS our country? When do you say enough of the lies and half truths and start acting as grown ups should? Don't you get awdully tired of defending a group which wants nothing more than to send your kids off to die so you can keep driving Hummers and SUVs? Or is that ok with you?

And do you have any sources to back up your sad little tale, or is this just more Republican propaganda outa your fevered little imagination? How easy so you think it's going to be to sell Bill Clinton as a money grubbing Democrat? Are you certain your Republican handlers want you to go that way?

Answer 3

Wow you must really like Clinton!
Ive never heard of anyone getting into a fight(espeacially with their family) over a president who never even knew you existed. Trust me,Bill Clinton, no matter how great or stupid a president he was, isnt worth risking your family.
Just let it go, forget about it, dont ever bring it up again

Answer 4

The federal government ran a deficit in its operating budget each and every year from 1961 through 1998. In 1999, the operating budget was approximately balanced for the first time in 39 years with a possible tiny surplus of $0.7 billion. Thats it! That is the whole surplus in the governments operating budget! During the previous four years, 1995-98, the government ran deficits totaling $534 billion. A possible $0.7 billion surplus in 1999 doesnt do a great deal to offset all the red ink of previous years.



The Social Security Trust Fund does have a planned surplus at this time. A Presidential Commission headed by Alan Greenspan recommended in 1982 that payroll taxes be increased in order to partially pre-fund the retirement of the baby boomers, the largest generation in American history.



In 1983, legislation was enacted to improve the solvency of the Social Security Trust Fund which ran small budget deficits for seven years in a row from 1976-1982. The legislation was designed specifically for the purpose of building up a surplus in the Trust Fund in preparation for the staggering new obligations the Fund would face when the baby-boom generation begins to retire about 2010. Both Social Security tax rates and the Social Security tax base were gradually raised over a seven-year period so the Trust Fund would be solvent when it took the big financial hit resulting from the retirement of the baby boomers. Specifically, the legislation gradually raised the Social Security tax rate from 6.7 percent in 1983 to 7.65 percent in 1990, and raised the tax base from $35,700 in 1983 to $51,300 in 1990.



The game plan worked. By 1986, the off-budget surplus of the federal government, which is made up mostly of the Social Security surplus, had risen to $16.7 billion. The Social Security surplus was $52.8 billion in 1989, and it had soared to $123.7 billion in 1999. This planned surplus in the Social Security Trust Fund will be wiped out over the next several years by increased Social Security payouts to the baby boomers, and the Trust Fund is expected to begin experiencing deficits again beginning about 2015. Yet, politicians cant keep their eye off that temporary surplus in the Social Security cookie jar and are making plans to use it in various ways, including giving part of it to higher-income Americans in the form of a tax cut.



Actually, the government has been borrowing the Social Security surplus and spending it on general government programs for several years. The net effect has been to disguise the true size of budget deficits in past years. For example, in fiscal year 1995, the government experienced a $226.4 billion deficit in its operating budget. However, since the Social Security Trust Fund had a surplus of $62.4 billion that year, the government simply borrowed the Social Security surplus and spent it as part of it general operating budget. The $62.4 billion Social Security surplus was deducted from the $226.4 billion deficit and the government reported an official deficit of only $164 billion.



In 1997, since there was a surplus in the Social Security Trust Fund of $81.4 billion, the actual $103.4 billion on-budget deficit was reduced by that amount and the government reported a total deficit of only $22.0 billion. It was in 1998 that the American people first had the wool pulled over their eyes on a grand scale. In that year, the operating budget of the federal government was still in the red with an actual deficit of $30 billion. It was the $99.2 billion surplus in the Social Security Trust Fund that enabled the government to report a budget surplus of $69.2 billion. During a year in which the United States Government spent $30 billion more than it collected in general revenue, it announced that there was a $69.2 billion overall surplus!



From that point on, the American people seemed to believe that there truly was excess money in the federal budget, and cunning politicians began building schemes to further mislead the people into believing that money was available for new programs and/or for cutting taxes. Any reader who has doubts about whether the government had a deficit or surplus in 1998 need only check out the size of the national debt in 1997 and 1998. The United States Treasury Department maintains a web site on the internet that provides public debt figures updated on a daily basis.



The total debt at the end of 1997 was $5,369.7 billion ($5.37 trillion). By the end of 1998, the debt had risen to $5,478.7 billion ($5.48 trillion). How could the national debt rise by $109 billion if the government had a $69.2 billion surplus? It couldnt. The United States Government had to borrow $30 billion to pay the on-budget deficit. In addition, since the Social Security Surplus was all invested in United States Treasury securities as required by law, the governments debt to the Social Security fund also went up.

Answer 5

I'm sure he wasn't the only president under which she couldn't afford her meds. That's no reason to get ignorant with you or kick your butt either.