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I can't believe this needs spoon-fed like this. The YEARLY BUDGET was in the BLACK when Clinton was in. No, he did not manage to completely erase the debt created by the Reagan/Daddy Bush war-budget-freebies-for-the-rich years. But HIS BUDGET was in the BLACK. Do you get it now? Or do you only speak teabagger?
1) The above is clearly racist, sexist, and probably homophobic. The phrase "in the BLACK" is offensive to some minorities, as does the phrase "in the RED" presume to insult Native Americans. As a Native American (I was born in the US of A, and that makes me as native to the North American continent as ANY other hominid alive today), I find offensive that anyone could be "in" me.
2) NO president since before Nixon had a balanced budget, let alone a budget showing a surplus, which is an alternative meaning to the bigoted phrase you used "in the BLACK". Also, even pretending the final budget under Clinton showed a surplus, that surplus would have been the product of the House of Representatives, which, at the time, was controlled by Republicans. Not that it matters, because GAAP would put anyone in jail who tried to make the claim that the federal budget was in balance . Socialist Security revenues were counted, future socialist security liabilities were not listed. This is the kind of accounting that made Enron famous.
3) If there HAD BEEN a surplus under Clinton, the only moral thing to do with it would have been to cut taxes so the persons paying the largest fraction of the surplus got the largest fraction of the refund. Is it necessary to point out that President Clinton presided over no morally obligated tax rebates to overcharged taxpayers? Again, this is a fact that could have put civillian accountants in jail, if they tried it with a private company.
So, there weren't no surplus, the budget was not "in the black" (I'm tempted to point out that the urban legend has it that the Washington Post grammar checker requested that the business page use the term "African American" instead of "black", but I won't), and Clinton, a convicted perjurer, doesn't haven any positive record to point to.