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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 859835" data-attributes="member: 4805"><p>A budget surplus occurs when the government's income exceeds it's spending over a given period of time, it's really that simple and there is no (rational) argument that this didn't happen under Clinton. Mr Steiner makes his case by essentially making up his own definition of what constitutes a surplus (basically he ties it to the debt level) and then saying that the Clinton surplus doesn't meet his own (made up) definition. That's fine for Mr Steiner because he's not a budget analyst and doesn't rely on getting paid for such faulty reasoning, otherwise he would go hungry most nights. You don't have to read too much on his site to realize that if the exact same surplus had occurred under Bush his "analysis" would reach the exact opposite conclusion than it did with the Clinton surplus.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jones, post: 859835, member: 4805"] A budget surplus occurs when the government's income exceeds it's spending over a given period of time, it's really that simple and there is no (rational) argument that this didn't happen under Clinton. Mr Steiner makes his case by essentially making up his own definition of what constitutes a surplus (basically he ties it to the debt level) and then saying that the Clinton surplus doesn't meet his own (made up) definition. That's fine for Mr Steiner because he's not a budget analyst and doesn't rely on getting paid for such faulty reasoning, otherwise he would go hungry most nights. You don't have to read too much on his site to realize that if the exact same surplus had occurred under Bush his "analysis" would reach the exact opposite conclusion than it did with the Clinton surplus. [/QUOTE]
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