In article <0v-dncx5yrGCUL_VnZ2dnUVZ_uGdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
dilbert firestorm <scanb31@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> D.F. Manno wrote:
> > dilbert firestorm <scanb31@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > Magnus, Robot Fighter wrote:
> > >
> > > > Didn't Clinton balance the budget...then Bush gave away the
surplus to
> > > > the American public? Just asking...been awhile...
> > >
> > > the budget balance thing was bogus.
> >
> > Only to dittoheads.
> >
> > The federal budget is balanced when revenues either equal or exceed
> > expenditures. In fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001, revenues
> > exceeded expenditures, so the budget was balanced. And all of those
> > budgets were proposed by Clinton.
> >
> > See Table 1.1, Summary of Receipts, Outlays, and Surpluses or
Deficits:
> > 17892012, "The Budget for Fiscal Year 2008, Historical Tables," p.
22.
> >
> > (Note: the federal fiscal year begins on Oct. 1 qnd ends Sept. 30. So
> > FY2001 began Oct. 1, 2000 and ended Sept. 30, 2001. As such, it was
> > Clinton's last budget.)
>
> There never was. they cooked the books by making it look like there was
> a surplus. They double counted some revenue receipts to make it appear
> that they received more revenue than they were actually getting.
And George Bush has presented _eight_ budgets to Congress showing the
same figures as the Clinton budgets, instead of blowing the whistle on
the so-called "cooked" books so as to take political advantage. Yeah,
right.
> I'll get te link when I get a chance. I just woke up, fell asleep over
> the computer, so I'm pooped off.
IOW, you've got nothing.
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D.F. Manno | dfmanno@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words
are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by
destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people
will solemnly vote against their own interests." (Gore Vidal)
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