07-17-2008, 07:14 AM
speedbump Wrote:Admin Wrote:I have also asked this question and no one has a reasonable reply:
How can you have a surplus and a debt?
The surplus is the result of government spending in that fiscal year. All (or sometimes most) of the surplus goes towards paying the debt.
What I am saying is why did Clinton hold on to the surplus until Bush got into office? Wouldn't it have been more fiscally prudent to apply it to the debt?
Go fuck yourself. Hard.