Re: OT:who is the worst pres of all time?

"DP75089" <a165a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sep 1 2005 9:40 PM, Paul Gee wrote:
>
> > "DP75089" <a165a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >
> > > Except that he never did it. We had a surplus for two budgets, but it
was
> > > never used to pay down debt. The debt was higher every single year of
> > > Clinton's term than it was the previous year, including 1999 and 2000.
> > >
> >
> >
> > So then there never was a surplus for those two years. Creative
accounting.
>
> Correction. I didn't say there never was a surplus. I said it was never
> used to pay down the federal debt.
>


I'm saying there was no surplus.

-Paul G.


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