Re: {Tea Party Patriots} SPENDING!

• The Clinton Balanced Budget Myth:
  
  http://www.factcheck.org/askfa...
  
  Clinton ran deficits throught all 8 years of his term, and one can go to the US Treasury Department and looking through the history of the total outstanding debt throught Clintons term. (http://www.treasurydirect.gov/...)
  
  Every year Clinton was in office, the total national debt continued to climb.
  
  How Clinton managed to claim a surplus was that while the general operating budgets ran deficits but Clinton borrowed from numerous off budget funds to make the on budget fund a surplus.
  
  For example, in 2000, Clinton claimed a $230B surplus, but Clinton borrowed
  $152.3B from Social Security
  $30.9B from Civil Service Retirement Fund
  $18.5B from Federal Supplementary Medical insurance Trust Fund
  $15.0B from Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund
  $9.0B from the Federal Unemployment Trust Fund
  $8.2B from Military Retirement Fund
  $3.8B from Transportation Trust Funds
  $1.8B from Employee Life Insurance & Retirement fund
  $7.0B from others
  
  Total borrowed from off budget funds $246.5B, meaning that his $230B surplus is actually a $16.5B deficit.
  ($246.5B borrowed - $230B claimed surplus = $16.5B actual deficit).

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