#surplus

Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion. ↗

— John Spratt

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#ago #billion #clinton #clinton administration #country

We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ↗

— John Spratt

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#budget #deficits #developed #diminishing #during

Surplus meant unnecessary. Not required. You couldn’t be a Surplus if you were needed by someone else. You couldn’t be a Surplus if you were loved. ↗

— Gemma Malley

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#death #declaration #gemma #life #love