Ethics of the $5.6 trillion surplus - Who do you believe?

[cincyblows]

Clinton's "surplus" was a PROJECTED surplus, not an actual surplus. He did, however, lead us into a deficit.

[bootylicification]

Clinton didn't leave a surplus but a $1.4 trillion debt over eight years. He borrowed from Social Security, part of a $115 Trillion unfunded liability, to make it seem he left a surplus. See my about me for links.

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Allen West 2012

[MrGrumpyin2010]

finally. someone with real sense!!

[Not00Fred]

As can clearly be seen, in no year [of Clinton's term] did the national debt go down, nor did Clinton leave President Bush with a surplus that Bush subsequently turned into a deficit.[ ... ] And Clinton's last budget proposal for FY2001, which ended in September 2001, generated a $133.29 billion deficit. The growing deficits started in the year of the last Clinton budget, not in the first year of the Bush administration.

Search google for "The Myth of the Clinton Surplus"