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To: RetiredNow who wrote (15720)	3/29/2010 5:33:47 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

Well, let’s set the facts straight shall we? Let’s get them out in the open and let’s go straight to the source, The Bureau of the Public Debt. 9/30/1987 Reagan/Democrat Congress $2,350,276,890,953.00 9/30/1988 Reagan/Democrat Congress $2,602,337,712,041.16 +$252,060,821,088.16 9/30/1989 Bush/Democrat Congress $2,857,430,960,187.32 +$255,093,248146.16 9/30/1990 Bush/Democrat Congress $3,233,313,451,777.25 +$375,882,491,589.93 9/30/1991 Bush/Democrat Congress $3,665,303,351,697.03 +$431,989,899,919.78 9/30/1992 Bush/Democrat Congress $4,064,620,655,521.66 +$399,317,303,824.63 9/30/1993 Clinton/Democrat Congress $4,411,488,883,139.38 +$346,868,227,617.72 9/30/1994 Clinton/Democrat Congress $4,692,749,910,013.32 +$281,261,026,873.94 9/30/1995 Clinton/Republican Congress $4,973,982,900,709.39 +$281,232,990,696.07 9/30/1996 Clinton/Republican Congress $5,224,810,939,135.73 +$250,828,038,426.34 9/30/1997 Clinton/Republican Congress $5,413,146,011,397.34 +$188,335,072,261.61 9/30/1998 Clinton/Republican Congress $5,526,193,008,897.62 +$113,046,997,500.28 9/30/1999 Clinton/Republican Congress $5,656,270,901,615.43 +$130,077,892,717.81 9/30/2000 Clinton/Republican Congress $5,674,178,209,886.86 +$17,907,308,271.43 9/30/2001 Bush/Republican Congress $5,807,463,412,200.06 +$133,285,202,313.20 9/30/2002 Bush/Republican Congress $6,228,235,965,597.16 +$420,772,553,397.10 9/30/2003 Bush/Republican Congress $6,783,231,062,743.62 +$554,995,097,146.46 9/30/2004 Bush/Republican Congress $7,379,052,696,330.32 +$595,821,633,586.70 3/08/2005 Bush/Republican Congress $7,746,290,500,431.39 +$367,237,804,101.07 Do you see what I see? Do you see that never, not once, not EVER during the Clinton years did we decrease the debt of the United States. How can that be? The liberal Democrats tell us that we were running a surplus and paying down the debt. Why would they lie? Welcome to the world of reality. The reality is we NEVER had the budget surplus during the Clinton Presidency that causes liberals to swoon and wish for the days of old while having orgasmic rages. We ran a deficit EVERY single year and increased the public debt. The budget may have shown a surplus on paper, but after you add in supplemental spending packages, interest on the existing debt (which is part of the budget) and other after budget expenditures you can see that EVERY year we ran a deficit.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (15720)	3/29/2010 5:48:51 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

>> Clinton's latter years are widely regarded as surplus years. There was ALMOST a surplus for one year. But there was never, EVER going to be a string of them. And it has nothing to do with Bush tax cuts. It has to do with the crash of the economy as clinton was on the way out the door. Don't act as though 10 year projections are somehow "The Word". They're not worth the paper they're printed on (you can forward this to CBO as it pertains to Health Care, as well).