Knighty, you get an A+ for research for finding that PDF.
i didn't so much mean to say that nobody said it was surplus, even official government agencies, rather, i meant to say there was, factually, no surplus. if i said nobody claimed it, i'm obviously wrong about that.
the debt rose in both 1998 and 2000 - and every other year clinton was in office.
09/30/2001 5,807,463,412,200.06
09/30/2000 5,674,178,209,886.86
09/30/1999 5,656,270,901,615.43
09/30/1998 5,526,193,008,897.62
09/30/1997 5,413,146,011,397.34
treasurydirect.gov
treasurydirect.gov
it seems that the clinton white house had problems defining multiple words during his administration. ;-)
somehow, i don't think you'd quite the government's inflation numbers as fact - b/c you don't believe them to be true even though they claim it.
he came close, but no cigar on a surplus. |
