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Originally posted by HardDrive
What in the world are you blathering on about? This country never ran a deficit until the 1970s, a solid 30 years after WWII.
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Have to disagree, but the last true balanced budget, where it was balanced and we didn't steal the Social Security funds, was in the 1950's under Eisenhower. While the budget was "balanced" in the 1990's for a couple of years, it really still ran a deficit if you include the SS obligations, that weren't being funded.
The Social Security fund raiding started with Johnson in the 1960's.
As far as the national debt is concerned, it is the reason I voted for Big Ears in 1992. He was the only candidate in recent history to present not a "Balanced Budget" plan, but a debt reduction plan.