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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scumbria who wrote (151627)	6/8/2001 3:45:55 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Clinton inherited a record $290 billion deficit from the profligate spending Dem Controlled Congress. It took 6 years for the Republican Congress to balance the budget. JLA

To: Scumbria who wrote (151627)	6/8/2001 7:20:47 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Good try, but... 09/29/2000 $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 09/30/1996 $5,224,810,939,135.73 publicdebt.treas.gov So if he got the budget balanced in '98, why did the debt continue increasing? Is it possible he really didn't and this has to do with what the meaning of is is?