What happened to Oaktowngator?

Yep. His physical dependency was real.
It cost him his family, his career and ultimately his life.

He lost his job because he got a dui for trying to sleep off a rough night in his car at a gas station near the Sunshine Skyway, but because the engine was running while he slept (to stay warm) he got hit with a dui. Losing his job as an EMT led to him losing his house, family etc.

He took a construction job to make ends meet and was ultimately murdered by a drifter trying to rob him in Jacksonville.

This was my cousin. The closest thing I had to a physical brother.

This September was 2 years.

 

Sorry homie. Contract wiff 'murica was 1994--prior to the midterms..... AFTER he wanted his wife to socialize and take over the health care system--read: blow the debt up to kingdom come.

Crammed. Down. His. Gullet.

 

Nope. Again.

Let us establish one point definitively: Bill Clinton didn’t balance the budget. Yes, he was there when it happened. But the record shows that was about the extent of his contribution.

And 1993 — the year of the giant Clinton tax hike — was not the turning point in the deficit wars, either. In fact, in 1995, two years after that tax hike, the budget baseline submitted by the president’s own Office of Management and Budget and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted $200 billion deficits for as far as the eye could see. The figure shows the Clinton deficit baseline. What changed this bleak outlook? Newt Gingrich and company ...

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Now let us contrast this with the Clinton fiscal record. Recall that it was the Clinton White House that fought Republicans every inch of the way in balancing the budget in 1995. When Republicans proposed their own balanced-budget plan, the White House waged a shameless Mediscare campaign to torpedo the plan — a campaign that the Washington Post slammed as “pure demagoguery.” It was Bill Clinton who, during the big budget fight in 1995, had to submit not one, not two, but five budgets until he begrudgingly matched the GOP’s balanced-budget plan. In fact, during the height of the budget wars in the summer of 1995, the Clinton administration admitted that “balancing the budget is not one of our top priorities.”

And lest we forget, it was Bill Clinton and his wife who tried to engineer a federal takeover of the health care system — a plan that would have sent the government’s finances into the stratosphere. Tom Delay was right: for Clinton to take credit for the balanced budget is like Chicago Cubs pitcher Steve Trachsel taking credit for delivering the pitch to Mark McGuire that he hit out of the park for his 62nd home run.

The figure shows that the actual cumulative budget deficit from 1994 to 1998 was almost $600 billion below the Clintonomics baseline. Part of the explanation for the balanced budget is that Republicans in Congress had the common sense to reject the most reckless features of Clintonomics. Just this year, Bill Clinton’s budget proposed more than $100 billion in new social spending — proposals that were mostly tossed overboard. It’s funny, but back in January the White House didn’t seem too concerned about saving the surplus for “shoring up Social Security.” [EMPHASIS ADDED].

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https://www.cato.org/commentary/no-bill-clinton-didnt-balance-budget​

 

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Clinton is quoted by sources as telling the GOP leaders, "You may not believe this, but I'm willing to lose this seat rather than take a budget like this."

Officials described the Republicans as pressing Clinton to come forward with budget concessions, such as an agreement to try to work out a seven-year budget plan, and Clinton as refusing. Officials said Clinton told Dole that he would have to win the presidential election and take over the Oval Office to get a budget like Republicans are proposing past a presidential veto.


Gingrich's problem in negotiating a short-term increase in the debt ceiling is greatly complicated by widespread resistance from conservative House members, particularly freshmen, who are determined to deny more government borrowing until Clinton agrees to negotiate a balanced budget plan. "Not many of us want to give a short-term debt ceiling raising unless we get a quid pro quo," House Rules Committee Chairman Gerald B.H. Solomon (R-N.Y.) said. "You have a lot of people who don't want to vote for it, period." [Emphasis added].

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...tension/7c8f3953-ec7c-421e-ab8f-3b6f1f77fe27/​

 

It was damn near contemporaneous.

As was the second article I just posted.

Clinton went kicking and screaming with his nuts in a vice, to a balanced budge.

LOL @ your pathetic projection ("revisionist history").

It's like you didn't actually live through it.