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Martin Eden

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7. I liked Bill Clinton's put-down of Ryan's budget at the 2012 Democratic convention

Reply to H2O Man (Original post)

Wed Jan 13, 2016, 01:23 PM

Jan 2016

Bill said when he was asked how he had managed to balance the budget, his simple one word reply was "arithmetic."

I saw that as a very succinct and effective repudiation of Ryan's budget, delivered with humor.

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