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How was the Clinton adminsitration balancing the budget?

During the Clinton years the budget allegedly was going to be balanced by 2002, How was this possible when he pardoned many criminals who evaded taxes, cut many federal programs such as welfare and our military protection yet allowed legislation to pass bills that doubled the presidents salary, increased legislative salaries and gave themselves annual salary increases far beyond tax payers increases in addition to unlimited health care and a large pension plan that relieved the senate of FICA taxes? By heavily taxing the working class and pardoning their supporters who evade paying taxes? By cutting spending to social programs while increasing benefit packages of president and senators (that we will pay for for the rest of each leaders life? By spending millions to control crime then set the worst ones free becasue they donate to political campaigns or serve other purposes?

Public Comments

1. Not to make it political, because it shouldnt be, but there never was a balanced budget, a budget surplus or a trade surplus either- I wish people would be more honest about this stuff
2. They claim it was done .... I couldn't tell.
3. The National Debt increased $900,000,000.00 under his presidency. And SS was included in the "Surplus". What surplus?
4. Actually the president cannot 'balance the budget.' The budget was balanced by (the Republican controlled) Congress.