Was the budget really balanced? or was it government speak? Clinton had
the advantage of a robust economy as well as a congress that cut spending.
The robust economy was not Clinton's fault and was already starting to tank
before he left office. Do accounting like is required of every public
business, and you will see a lot of lies in government. Where is the Social
Security "Trust Fund"? Is a bunch of IOU's from the rest of the Federal
Government. They borrowed it interest free and spent it! You do that to
your kids inherited trust fund, and you get to visit the Greybar Hotel. the
16% tax is what made the budget looked balanced. We, as voters and
taxpayers, ought to require the budget to be a real budget, and numbers
based on real life. Baseline budgeting the Congress uses, supposes a 13%
(somewhere in this range) growth in spending each year. That is why you can
have a 4% cut and still spend 9% more money each year on a program. And it
was the Democrats who instigated this travesty when inflation was about 13%
in maybe the 1970's.
Bill

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It's not just the polls which reflect how people are thinking. History
will show the Dems are responsibe for our ever increasing federal
spending with their never ending push towards a fully socialist economy.

How do you explain, then, that when Clinton was in office, the
nation's budget was balanced, and then when GWB got here, we go into,
and REMAIN in massive debt?