>>I think with that analogy, it may be more applicable to say that although your debt went up a net $25, it had been going up by a much faster amount before. And in that time period, you took in more than you spent for the first time in a long time, and used some of that surplus to pay your debt.
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>Also, you do not know if I used a cash advance check from MasterCard to pay down my VISA bill which is not unlike shifting public debt to intragov debt.

If I am understanding you correctly, you are implying that the Clinton administration borrowed from the Intragovernmental Holdings category to make payments in the Public Debt category. Is that what you are saying?