Dole doesn't want to do anything that Clinton might get credit for.

They believe that in large measure people make or break their own lives, and you're on your own. Live with it because there's not a damn thing you can do about it. With an apparent conflict of interest as background, Mr. So there is this sense that the world is divided between the good guys and the bad guys, and the good guys should have their nuclear weapons, and the bad guys shouldn't. America the more people who are armed, the more guns they sell. The former president appears on Talk of the Nation to discuss his presidency, the state of modern politics, and his views on the future. Under current law, the credit is reduced by 21 percent for each dollar earned above the ceiling. And I refuse to describe my views in terms of party membership. We didn't succeed at everything we tried to do, but I think on balance, the world was safer when we stopped than when we started.

But some economists claim it's just not that simple. Then you know that people are being motivated by hard economic and political interests, rather than a Dances With Wolves sort of multicultural sensibility. The Republican Party can't win an election on the issues. More recently, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, the International Monetary Fund and other critics have warned big deficits could fuel higher interest rates and financial disruption. Bush criticized the proposal, saying the federal budget should not be "balanced on the backs of the poor. Stiglitz is wrong on most everything concerning economics.