The great Democrat deception: Clinton never had a surplus!

[MAC1]

The great Democrat deception!

According to the Treasury Department's own figures, Clinton never had a surplus:

Fiscal Year/Year Ending/National Debt/Deficit
FY1993 09/30/1993 $4.411488 trillion
FY1994 09/30/1994 $4.692749 trillion $281.26 billion
FY1995 09/29/1995 $4.973982 trillion $281.23 billion
FY1996 09/30/1996 $5.224810 trillion $250.83 billion
FY1997 09/30/1997 $5.413146 trillion $188.34 billion
FY1998 09/30/1998 $5.526193 trillion $113.05 billion
FY1999 09/30/1999 $5.656270 trillion $130.08 billion
FY2000 09/29/2000 $5.674178 trillion $17.91 billion
FY2001 09/28/2001 $5.807463 trillion $133.29 billion

Source: U.S. Treasury
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np

 

[JohnnyBz00LS]

Thanks for proving it takes a Democrat to reduce the budget deficit, and a Republican to piss it away.

Fiscal Year/Year Ending/National Debt/Deficit
FY1993 09/30/1993 $4.411488 trillion
FY1994 09/30/1994 $4.692749 trillion $281.26 billion
FY1995 09/29/1995 $4.973982 trillion $281.23 billion
FY1996 09/30/1996 $5.224810 trillion $250.83 billion
FY1997 09/30/1997 $5.413146 trillion $188.34 billion
FY1998 09/30/1998 $5.526193 trillion $113.05 billion
FY1999 09/30/1999 $5.656270 trillion $130.08 billion
FY2000 09/29/2000 $5.674178 trillion $17.91 billion
FY2001 09/28/2001 $5.807463 trillion $133.29 billion

*owned*

 

[MAC1]

Thanks for proving it takes a Democrat to reduce the budget deficit, and a Republican to piss it away.



*owned*

No surplus despite the years of lies by Democrats.

*owned* *owned*

 

[Marcus]

Those numbers are for the NATIONAL DEBT, not BUDGET DEFICITS. I have to question where you pasted that from, because the page you link to doesn't even format the numbers like you did. Even the column you have labeled "deficit" doesn't jibe with the proper use of the term. It just subtracts the debt from one year from the debt from the previous year and calls that a "deficit". Obviously you've copied and pasted this from some web site that doesn't know what the hell they're talking about.

The federal budget indeed had a real surplus in the years 1998 to 2001 (PDF File):

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2006/pdf/hist.pdf#page=30

Another source of confusion is the left-wing talking point about the "seven trillion dollar surplus" or whatever the number is (it varies) under Clinton, which the right immediately points out (correctly) was only a PROJECTION. This is true. However, there was indeed a 236.2 billion dollar surplus in 2000 in real dollars, NOT projected.

 

[cammerfe]

None of that was real dollars. The definition of a dollar is 371.25 grains of fine silver.
KS

 

[Calabrio]

it doesn't matter...
Projected surplus or not, we were experiencing a boom economy and the projections were made BEFORE that tech bubble bust.

But most important, they came about because of two things-
1- Reagan tax cuts in the 80s that freed up capital that was invested in technology that resulted in the 90s tech boom.
2- Republican fiscal constraint (under the direction of Gingrich) that limited the growth of the Clinton government from '95 on.

It's all a moot point now.
Right now we have a new President taking office who is likely more liberal than any President before him. And he's going to be serving along with a Congress run by radical leftists who have been waiting their entire lives to enact their agendas.... And that day looks to be coming.