>>How can you say there were actual surpluses when the Federal deficit increased EVERY DAMN YEAR under Clinton???? I gave you a link to these figures posted by the OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT & BUDGET. Do you not understand what this Office is? Or, like Clinton, do you need a definition of "is"? Until you can remove your Clinton-colored glasses and explain these figures, I have nothing further to discuss. I have at least admitted I am no accountant and may not be understanding completely the figures OMB posted and I could be wrong about what I see. But those numbers of the Federal deficit sure look they are increasing every year to me.
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>As I pointed out earlier, when people talk about the budget that is proposed by the President to Congress, it is an annual budget. The President is proposing how much the federal government should spend and where it should spend it in the upcoming fiscal year. Clinton proposed balanced budgets toward the end of his term, meaning that the governent was not going to spend more than it took in.
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>And yes, I do understand what the Office of Management and Budget is. However, you may be better off getting your information from the Congressional Budget Office, which is nonpartisan, rather than information from the White House's Office of Management and Budget:
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>http://www.cbo.gov/AboutCBO.cfm

You have just been hanged by your own noose. On the CBO site's Links page is a link "Federal Debt to the Penny" which leads to the Bureau of Public Dept which I think is in the Treasury Dept. Here is the direct link:

http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm

Once again the federal debt has increased every year even under Clinton. You have not yet produced any government stats to refute this. Explain how you can have a surplus that supposedly pays down the federal debt yet still have it increase every year? I do appreciate your help in solidifying my position on the Clinton myth.

While you are relying on the Clinton News Network for your ammo, I am relying on 2 different government sources for mine.