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To: dangus

I'm sorry my friend, the federal government has not had one fiscal year in the black since 1960. You can't start taking items like socialist security out of the equation.

http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdhisto4.htm


34 posted on 07/07/2005 6:27:19 PM PDT by Andy from Beaverton (I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
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To: Andy from Beaverton

Um, that chart you're looking at shows our public debt, not the deficit. It's the difference between buying your house in cash, and meeting your mortgage payment. The scary thing is that we aren't even meeting our mortgage payments.


39 posted on 07/07/2005 7:50:58 PM PDT by dangus
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