Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...announcement routinely arrives that we're nearly out of debt, that the budget is precariously balanced or, as President Clinton currently trumpets, we're in "surplus," one wonders just what the nation's buying into...
...fact is, the budget is no more balanced than it was last year when legislators were singing the same old "You must pay the rent--I can't pay the rent!" song. The money may be there, but as I and so many other students learn each year when housing deposits are due, credit and your good name can only...
...paid for my deposit with a loan, just like the Federal Government did for the leaky-roofed shack of a Federal Budget we all currently occupy...
...money wasn't loaned to the government by outside interest groups or even foreign banks: it came from the American public and most likely will not be paid back. In return we all are allowed to reside in the cold comfort farm of what the Federal Budget provides. And that's not much...
Fact is, it ain't too clean, it ain't too pretty, and it certainly doesn't have anything in surplus except holes. The biggest hole is in Social Security. That's what the Government has essentially been borrowing from to balance the budget. To create economic surplus, we are collectively trading on our future...