[carlr]

She couldn't have meant the national debt, because there was none.

Shows how these lib pundits have almost no idea of what they talk about.
We did`nt have a federal deficit for the year.The national debt is the accrued debt from years of deficit spending.
I could`nt guess the last time we did`nt have a national debt.

Minor point I know,but usually leftist propaganda is filled with these inaccuracies.
Listen to anything that spews from Ted Kennedys mouth.

[sgtbono2002]

Yes: I noticed the strange lack of truth in this story too.

[nobdysfool]

I could`nt guess the last time we did`nt have a national debt.

If I recall correctly, the last time was during Andrew Jackson's Presidency.

[phoenix0468]

I would have to guess that the last time we did not have a national debt would have been sometime before comrade Roosevelt took office.