Replying to a message of Dave Drum to TIM RICHARDSON:

 DD> -=> TIM RICHARDSON wrote to ROSS SAUER <=-

 TR>> "The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be
 TR>> refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of
 TR>> public officials should be tempered and controlled, and
 TR>> the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed......
 TR>> People must again learn to work, instead of living on
 TR>> public assistance."

 DD> Who was the last president to balance the budget??? Wasn't
 DD> it that well known darling of the "left" and notorious
 DD> philanderer, William Jefferson "Slick Willy" Clinton?

 DD> Who was the last president actually to apply budgetary
 DD> 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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