Originally Posted by
fathergoat
you are correct. it was projected that if it continued on the same path the deficit would have ended in 2012. but as you noted projections=/=reality. even without 9/11 the dot com bubble had begun to burst in '99 and the housing market was already getting inflated. Clinton had a very admirable goal and he set about to achieve it. I just have some contentions with how he planned to do it. but that's a discussion for another time.
He cut a lot of necessary spending to achieve his goal...look what he did with military spending which should be an ongoing thing just in case and not cut as drastically as it was. He also avoided situations regarding military so they wouldn't have an excuse to add to their budget and ignoring those problems partially led up to the state we are in now.
Can't forget his "credit for everyone" plan...that got us a long ways as we can see
