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To: pcstel who wrote (146617)10/30/2014 1:01:47 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 149317
 
"this country was taken to war on a credit card""Are you referring to all the money spent in 4 days during Operation Desert Fox in 1998? "

No. We paid for that with cash, with enuf change left over to buy a cup of coffee; a cup even larger than my own.
1998 $69.2 Billion Surplus

1999 $125.6 Billion Surplus

http://www.davemanuel.com/history-of-deficits-and-surpluses-in-the-united-states.php