In Praise of Public Life: on Budget & Economy


Booming economy from private sector plus government help

We New Democrats believe that the booming economy of the 1990s resulted more from private sector innovation, investment, & hard work than from government actions, but the federal government sure can and did help. The Clinton-Gore administration deserves tremendous credit for their leadership in the 1993 balanced budget proposal, and the NAFTA & GATT agreements that followed. I believe strongly that both these policies shaped the economic environment in which we have enjoyed such unprecedented growth.
Source: Excerpt from “In Praise of Public Life”, p.132 May 2, 2000

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