Reply #136: None of your business. And your numbers are wrong.

[Romulox]

Instead, the president explained, the $5.7 trillion national debt has been reduced by $360 billion in the last three years -- $223 billion this year alone.

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/09/27/clinton.surplus/


The Clinton-supplied numbers exclude the billions of $$$ the Clinton administration "borrowed" from Social Security in order to form his ersatz "balanced" budgets.

From the link you provided:

The second consecutive surplus excluding Social Security. Excluding Social Security, the surplus is projected to be $63 billion this year. This is the second consecutive surplus on this basis, for the first time since 1956-57.