Dad2three
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Meanwhile, that's exactly what Bush did. Did you vote for him anyway?Bush said he was giving us a tax rebate upon entering office because there was a surplus. Are you saying he was lying? Should he not have given us that rebate?WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Remember HOW Clinton got 4 surpluses, 3 AFTER vetoing the GOP $792= billion tax cut?
PLEASE don't go to the canard about Ronnie Reagan, I don't want to have to embarrass you!
So your saying the national debt declined during those 4 fantasy surpluses? Let's do a honesty and reality check here.
Any asshole politician who claims the federal government is running a surplus is a liar, you don't run a surplus until you've paid all outstanding obligations and have money left over.
I agree with the prior poster, and your assessment.
Was there a surplus? Well the most obvious way to find out if there was a surplus, is to look at the total national debt, and if the amount goes up, then clearly there was not.
Government - Historical Debt Outstanding - Annual 1950 - 1999
The US Treasury, is the final authority on how much debt is outstanding, obviously because they are the ones paying back, and issuing the debt to being with.
From the table on that link, you can clearly see the debt increased year over year. That would be impossible if there was a surplus.
The problem is, the Admininstration used cooked numbers and fuzzy math to make it look like there was a surplus.
That got politicians scrambling over each other on how to spend it, or cut taxes.
I have never supported tax rebates. I do however support tax cuts, and I support cutting government spending.
Bush did cut taxes, which I support. He also said he supported allowing people to invest their social security money in their own investments.
It was primarily these two issues that prompted my vote for Bush.
LOL, AND YOU SUPPOSEDLY WORKED ON THE BUDGET? LOL
Grow a brain Bubba, YEARLY BUDGETS are NOT tied to whether the debt go up or down (however Clinton paid off nearly $400 billion PUBLIC debt)
A YEARLY BUDGET SURPLUS OR DEFICIT IS JUST MEASURING MONIES COMING IN VERSUS GOING OUT IN THE F/Y. NOTHING MORE!!! Get honest ONCE!