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Originally Posted by bkcunningham1
He absolutely did not inherit a surplus from Clinton. Bush started with a $133.29 billion deficit in Jan. 2001.
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Are you sure?
http://www.davemanuel.com/history-of...ted-states.php
That says 2001 (fiscal year runs from October 1, 2000 to Sept 30, 2001) was a $127.3B surplus.
Are you talking about, perhaps, numbers that do or don't include the Social Security Surplus?
Check out page 26 of the following:
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy02/pdf/hist.pdf
It shows that Bush inherited a surplus and the White House (in 2001) was predicting continuing surpluses for the next several years.