[Hoodat]

Who passed the Contract With America, produced balanced budgets 4 years

The budget was never really balanced. Our total debt has increased every single year since 1969.

[untwist]

Adjusted for inflation, the annual budget deficits were reversed. How many times have we heard from the liberals that ‘Clinton’ gave Bush a budget surplus and Bush squandered it, blah, blah, blah...

There were annual surpluses in those years only because the American people voted a republican house and senate in Clinton’s first mid-term. Your point is right - cumulative national debt over has grown and grown. This is our doom if we can’t get rid of all these liberals and moderates out and start building an economy again.

[carcraft]

Ther is a difference between balancing a budget and running no deficits. I can create a spending plan (budget) that includes deficits. Gingrich forced Clinton to live with in his budget but the budget still included deficits!