[jessduntno]

“I’m here to blow a hole in the myth that Clinton ...”

Some words do NOT beong in the same sentence.

[Huck]

What a jokey article. So the surpluses were illegitimate because they were fueled by cap gains? What a dumb argument.

[Suz in AZ]

It’s easy to balance the budget when you gut the military. I remember no bullets and no jeep parts.

[tickmeister]

You don’t have to analyze anything, all you have to do is look at the national debt figures which increased throughout Clinton’s years. That disproves any spin about a “surplus”

[brytlea]

http://www.craigsteiner.us/articles/16

[Slyfox]

If you will notice that the surplus came directly AFTER the Republicans took over BOTH houses of Congress.

[Dilbert56]

More to the point: When morons tell us “Clinton gave us a budget surplus”, tell them they have it exactly backwards. We, the Amercan taxpayer, had more money taken from us than the Republican-controlled Congress spent. We gave Clinton the surplus, not the other way around.

[TigersEye]

Rush Limbaugh blew a hole in that myth before Bush was even elected. I don’t recall the specifics but the way projected revenues are calculated was changed from its traditional methods. It was an accounting trick.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

The Myth of the Clinton Surplus by Craig Steiner