> The federal gummint has never run in the black. > Ever. Nor will it. Fantasizing about it won't > change that fact.
$millions: Year Receipts Outlays Surplus ---- --------- --------- ------- 1998 1,721,955 1,652,685 69,270 1999 1,827,645 1,702,035 125,610 2000 2,025,457 1,789,216 236,241 2001 1,991,426 1,863,190 128,236 The Fed was also in the black every year from 1920-30, plus 1947-49, 1951, 1956-57, 1960, and 1969. But nobody ever had a surplus even remotely like Bill Clinton's. His 2000 surplus is 20x the pre-Clinton record. Those damnable tax & spend Democrats. http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2009/pdf/hist.pdf ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
