Replying to a message of Dave Drum to TIM RICHARDSON:
TIM RICHARDSON wrote to ROSS SAUER <=-
"The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be
refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of
public officials should be tempered and controlled, and
the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed......
People must again learn to work, instead of living on
public assistance."
Who was the last president to balance the budget??? Wasn't
it that well known darling of the "left" and notorious
philanderer, William Jefferson "Slick Willy" Clinton?
Who was the last president actually to apply budgetary
surplus to paying down the deficit/debt? See above.
I find it interesting that many people claim that Clinton ran
a budget surplus (maybe even plural) during his tenure. I've
read that the national debt *increased* in every single year of
his administration, which suggests that any surplus was an
accounting fiction. Congresscrooks - abetted by the administration
in power - spend a LOT of money that isn't included in the budget
or deficit calculations.
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* Origin: Bob's Boneyard, Emerson, Iowa (1:300/3)