Politicians cook the books to pretend the deficit is whatever they want it to be. And "factcheck.org" swallows the lies. There is a simple way to determine the deficit. You look at the total federal debt at the end of the year, and compare it to the total federal debt at the end of the previous year. Subtract, and you have the deficit. The U.S. Treasury publishes the debt figures. So unless you're going to argue that the U.S. Treasury is lying about how much debt is outstanding there is no way to deny that we had a deficit during every year of the Clinton administration. It is childish to an extreme to look at the deficits while Clinton was president, the deficits while Bush was president, and say that the difference was entirely due to who was president, when the president doesn't even write the laws or vote on the budget. Am I to seriously believe that under Gore Democrats wouldn't have voted for another giant entitlement program for senior citizens? Or that they would not have voted to double the size of the Department of Education? And most of the growth in the deficit was due to entitlement programs and pensions set in place years or decades before. A few smart and honest people were warning about the unfunded liabilities back in the 70s and 80s. Now the chickens have come home to roost, as the promises come due so more and more of those unfunded liabilities are transformed into actual bona fide debt. If Democrats impose fiscal order on the federal government we've seen no hint of that from the Obama administration.
This from the ignoranus who can't even understand a dumbed-down program on the Science Channel http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3473280#post3473280
Yes, the "ignoranus" Too funny. If you were smarter than a rock I might think you misspelled it on purpose.