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tinrobot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 01:09 AM
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President Clinton announces another record budget surplus
President Clinton announced Wednesday that the federal budget surplus for fiscal year 2000 amounted to at least $230 billion, making it the largest in U.S. history and topping last year's record surplus of $122.7 billion.

http://articles.cnn.com/2000-09-27/politics/clinton.surplus_1_budget-surplus-national-debt-fiscal-discipline?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS

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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 01:10 AM
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1. I miss those days...
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 01:45 AM
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3. +1000000
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 01:14 AM
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2. and W Bush pissed it all away with tax cuts...damn that boy...
This is what GOPism has done to America...they are not patriotic in the least....
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tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 01:56 AM
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5. Tax cuts and off-the-books, unfunded, illegal wars. nt
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ErikJ Donating Member (480 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 01:48 AM
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4. But most Republicans say that's a just myth now.
hahaha
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 10:18 AM
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6. Good times. nt
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Little Star Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 10:32 AM
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7. We can thank GWB for destroying our economy. Him and his..
Republican co-horts and their policies!
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pacalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 02:24 PM
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8. Then GW & his mandate from hell squandered it all, PLUS created a whopper of a deficit.
Now, that takes some WILD spending.
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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 03:00 PM
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9. And because some seniors couldn't figure out a ballot in Florida, it was pissed away...

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