by GENE MYERS  11/14/2022 Here we go again. Ho, ho, ho and a bottle of….wait a minute—it doesn’t go that way. Well, it’s mid-November and I’ve already viewed several Hallmark Christmas movies, perhaps in the mood for cheesy, well-worn, predictable, plotlines, to wit: boy meets girl, conflict, spark, boy gets girl,

Our story began nearly 28 years ago, on January 11, 1995. That was the day that Robert Rubin was sworn in as the 70th United States Secretary of Treasury, the day the transformation of the Clinton Administration began. Bill Clinton was the quintessential big-spending, progressive President. Under his first Treasury Secretary, Lloyd Benson, those free-spending ways were reigned free. Had Benson completed the term with Clinton, that Administration would have been known as just another debt-laden eight years of government.