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   >     Clinton raised taxes, balanced the   
   >budget and the economy boomed. In fact   
   >his budgets would have paid down the   
   >national debt if they had been allowed   
   >to continue. But Bush deliberataly   
   >killed the budget surplus because he   
   >thought it was PROBLEM. Tax cuts were   
   >more important.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >"You see, the growing surplus exists because taxes are   
   >too high and government is charging more than it needs."   
   >Bush Address to Congress, Feb 2001   
      
   Bush(43) is correct: a government surplus is *not* a positive thing.   
   What he said in your quoted statement of his is on target.  The   
   problem is that he replaced it with a deficit (again), and nobody has   
   changed it.  A government on a healthy economic footing should be   
   spending everything it receives in taxes and *only* what it receives   
   in taxes.  Out of the past half century, the US has had a deficit for   
   48 out of 50 years.   
      
   Right now, the entire planet is running on a complex network of   
   heavily kited, interlocking debt, and, at the end of the fiscal cycle,   
   the books *will* all balance.  The '29 market crash wasn't a US event;   
   it was a global crash... and it *will* happen again.  (BTW, that was   
   the end of a fiscal cycle and a balancing of the ledgers.)   
      
   Germany knew how to deal with it: they raised Hitler to absolute   
   power.  I suppose it seemed like a good idea at the time.   
      
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