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What people have offered up is the 93 budget bill as the legislation, crafted by clinton, by which he "accomplished" the things he is given credit for.  Well, that bill failed to achieve its stated goals.  If that budged is how he achieved the good economy, then the good economy was in spite of clinton and not because of him.

And as we all know, after he lost the house and senate, it didn't matter a whit whether he signed a bill or vetoed it, it was going to become law anyway because there were enough votes to override any veto as evidenced by clinton's grudging signature on the balanced budget amendement accompanied by his dire warnings of starvation in the streets.

And I perfectly understand that the president gets credit for good or bad during his term.  The purpose of this exercise has been to get popeye and top gun to realize that clinton didn't, in fact, "handle" the economy but instead was just there and as a result, got credit for it and so long as clinton seems to be getting credit for failed policy, greenspan has jumped on the bandwagon to grab some credit for a good economy also, in spite of the fact that the advice he gave to clinton was bad advice and the budget failed to achieve its stated goals and continued to be strong in spite of the two of them rather than because of anything they did.  They 9popeye and top gun)seem to have heroic image of clinton with his sleeves rolled up (rather than with his pants around his ankles) working on creating a good economy, or reducing the number of teen pregnancies or any of the other "achievements" they give him credit for.  People who believe such fanciful garbage should be led away from it if it hasn't seeped too deeply into their pores.  They should be brought to see the reality rather than the fantasy which, by the way, you apparently do.