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The Myth of the Clinton Surplus

I already have as have others, and it is basically the same thing just about everyone else with an IQ above their shoe size has confirmed. There was a surplus for the named years, it is unfortunate you cannot accept facts.

Your liberal arrogance is on full display as is your ignorance of basic economics and civics. If you want to believe there was a surplus then that just goes to show how poorly informed you are, if there was a surplus the debt would be reduced and it wasn't, it grew 1.4 trillion dollars. What is it about liberalism that creates this kind of loyalty?

Any reduction in deficit held by the public was offset by the increase in deficit in inter-government holdings thus an increase in the total debt
 
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Ok by way of explanation. Total debt under all presidents since Nixon...increased.

Debt of the US treasury for 3 years under Clinton was only added to US debt to soc. sec.

All other debt was in fact reduced by many billion$.

So the total debt went up under Clinton but for those 3 years debt outside soc. sec was reduced

while debt to soc. sec, increased as it has every year since Reagan.
 
Then that would be less than 9.3 trillion Obama created! Do you support the Trump budget proposal?

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You are smarter than this. Obama was handed a $1.4 trillion deficit from W and due to TARP.

Under Obama we were faced with the worst recession since the great depression.

Under the right (GOP) it was pure greed and venality for two tax cuts and two wars..what a deal.

With W and trump, they inherited good economies, borrow more trillion$ from our kids and for what ?

G r e e d and avarice.
 
You are smarter than this. Obama was handed a $1.4 trillion deficit from W and due to TARP.

Under Obama we were faced with the worst recession since the great depression.

Under the right (GOP) it was pure greed and venality for two tax cuts and two wars..what a deal.

With W and trump, they inherited good economies, borrow more trillion$ from our kids and for what ?

G r e e d and avarice.

Please stop, you are embarrassing yourself. TARP Was a loan and it amounted to about 450 billion dollars MOST OF WHICH WAS PAID BACK. Where did that payback go???? Should have reduced the deficit in 2009, shouldn't it?

Second, Bush submitted a budget as required, it was REJECTED, Obama signed that budget in March 2009 when Bush's spending authority on Continuing resolutions ran out. What is wrong with you people? Are you totally incapable of doing research?

You keep spreading the same leftwing lies over and over again, what did Obama do to bring us out of recession in JUNE 2009? Recovery.org will tell you how much money was spent and this may explain it to you better

https://wallstreetpit.com/13300-what-ended-the-great-recession/

What Obama was handed was a Democratic Congress, NO approved budget and a country coming out of recession due to TARP. It truly is sad how easy it is to fool so many people
 
You are smarter than this. Obama was handed a $1.4 trillion deficit from W and due to TARP.

Under Obama we were faced with the worst recession since the great depression.

Under the right (GOP) it was pure greed and venality for two tax cuts and two wars..what a deal.

With W and trump, they inherited good economies, borrow more trillion$ from our kids and for what ?

G r e e d and avarice.

Why do you have a Conservative lean and post left wing lies and distortions? Post 104 is right on and there isn't a conservative I know that believes any deficit was handed to Obama because there was NO BUDGET APPROVED and we were operating under Continuing resolutions based upon 2008 numbers. You seem to be easily swayed by the left's rhetoric and call yourself a conservative.

Reminder, fiscal year of the U.S. runs from October to September and TARP was a LOAN that the banks repaid with INTEREST.

You claim that Trump inherited a good economy? What was the GDP Trump inherited that made it a good economy by even your standards? Already pointed out that i 2018 GDP growth is up 2 trillion dollars through 1 year and 9 months and consumer spending up over a trillion dollars for three months of 2018 vs the entire 2016. How do you reconcile official numbers with your statements?
 
Why do you have a Conservative lean and post left wing lies and distortions? Post 104 is right on and there isn't a conservative I know that believes any deficit was handed to Obama because there was NO BUDGET APPROVED and we were operating under Continuing resolutions based upon 2008 numbers. You seem to be easily swayed by the left's rhetoric and call yourself a conservative.

Reminder, fiscal year of the U.S. runs from October to September and TARP was a LOAN that the banks repaid with INTEREST.

You claim that Trump inherited a good economy? What was the GDP Trump inherited that made it a good economy by even your standards? Already pointed out that i 2018 GDP growth is up 2 trillion dollars through 1 year and 9 months and consumer spending up over a trillion dollars for three months of 2018 vs the entire 2016. How do you reconcile official numbers with your statements?

You have a tedency to call all honest conservatives liars. Just accept the fact there are non biased conservatives like me.
 
You have a tedency to call all honest conservatives liars. Just accept the fact there are non biased conservatives like me.

Liberals never address the posts and always divert from them which is what you just did. Respond to what I posted and the data presented
 
Liberals never address the posts and always divert from them which is what you just did. Respond to what I posted and the data presented

Irony, you telling others about intention to divert from facts.
 
Irony, you telling others about intention to divert from facts.

Do you even know what a fact is? You think media reports are facts? How about Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Treasury, Census?? Try posting some facts for a change instead of your own personal opinions
 
Do you even know what a fact is? You think media reports are facts? How about Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Treasury, Census?? Try posting some facts for a change instead of your own personal opinions

None of those sources proves your claims.
 
None of those sources proves your claims.

And after me posting the official data over and over again from those sites you make that claim. LOL, what credibility do you have compared to BLS.gov, BEA.gov, Treasury.org or the Census bureau?
 
And after me posting the official data over and over again from those sites you make that claim. LOL, what credibility do you have compared to BLS.gov, BEA.gov, Treasury.org or the Census bureau?

It is not the stats you are posting, it is your complete lack of understanding on what they all mean.
 
It is not the stats you are posting, it is your complete lack of understanding on what they all mean.

Seems pretty simple to understand except to a liberal who wants to make the simple complex. The title of this thread is accurate as the data shows. Clinton added 1.4 trillion to the debt and all those so called surpluses were either projected surpluses or didn't occur making the claims of a surplus a MYTH!
 
Seems pretty simple to understand except to a liberal who wants to make the simple complex. The title of this thread is accurate as the data shows. Clinton added 1.4 trillion to the debt and all those so called surpluses were either projected surpluses or didn't occur making the claims of a surplus a MYTH!

Yet you consistently do not understand, the above post proving as much.
 
Yet you consistently do not understand, the above post proving as much.

Maybe the term surplus is confusing to you, when expenses are more than revenue that is a deficit which is the opposite of surplus and Clinton had 1.4 trillion of them which treasury will show you as the link shows, Your one line responses show you to not understand the subject
 
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