-=> Bob Ackley wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> Who was the last president actually to apply budgetary
 DD> surplus to paying down the deficit/debt? See above.

 BA> I find it interesting that many people claim that Clinton ran
 BA> a budget surplus (maybe even plural) during his tenure.  I've
 BA> read that the national debt *increased* in every single year of
 BA> his administration, which suggests that any surplus was an
 BA> accounting fiction.  Congresscrooks - abetted by the administration
 BA> in power - spend a LOT of money that isn't included in the budget
 BA> or deficit calculations.

1) Numbers are tools, not rules. 

2) Numbers are symbols for things; the number and the thing are not the same. 

3) Skill in manipulating numbers is a talent, not evidence of divine guidance. 

4) Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a
private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from
nonpractitioners. 

5) The product of an arithmetical computation is the answer to an equation; it
is not the solution to a problem. 

6) Arithmetical proofs of theorems that do not have arithmetical bases prove
nothing.

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