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

To: gerard mangiardi who wrote (447981)	8/26/2003 9:25:13 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Funny math that has the budget "balanced" but the national debt growing. Clintonomics = just lie about it.

To: gerard mangiardi who wrote (447981)	8/26/2003 9:31:39 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

The Social Security surplus was used to fund the general budget, through the theory that buying government bonds was a form of investment. Somehow, the Administration did not count those bonds as part of the debt. Thus, we had a surplus that somehow involved the accrual of increasing future obligations, or, in other words, not a real surplus. Maybe Democrats are just better at Enron accounting.........