Word: surplus
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...PBHA's finances are always teetering on the brink," Hampton says. "Donors don't want a surplus: they could take some of their money and give it to someone else. Non-profits very rarely have large cash reserves...
...rise and fall of Newt Gingrich, no triangulation, no pizza delivered by Monica Lewinsky during the government shutdown, no impeachment. Assuming Clinton would have been re-elected with a Democratic majority, then it would have fallen to Clinton and the Democratic Congress to figure out how to spend the surplus. If Clinton could have gotten passed the very legislation that Gore's been proposing, then think how extraordinary his legacy would have been...
...balanced budget with versions of that, and of welfare reform, that are less harsh, and there's no impeachment. Once the budget is balanced and the economy is prosperous, then his liberal instincts come back to the fore, and it's he who gets to spend the surplus on education, health care and Social Security. Then he would have had a brilliant presidency. But then again, I was one of those who wanted to believe he was more liberal than he was. But I admit there was hardly any evidence of it, even when he was freed up at times...
...first day or two after the scandal broke he was a little rattled, but then he pulled himself together to really bear down and focus on the speech. He steadied all of our nerves by doing that. It was just becoming clear there were going to be budget surpluses well ahead of anyone's expectations. The Republicans in Congress were determined to use that projected surplus for a tax cut, and in our view, it would be gone before it materialized. So over a period of many months, Clinton decided that using the surplus for Social Security was the best...
...also, a chance to say no. It's your money. You take it back. I want to give a quarter of the surplus back to you, so that nobody pays more than a third of their salary in income taxes, so that nobody feels that moving up in the world, setting aside a little money, will only make them a bigger target for the IRS. That's not right. That's not what America was built on. That's not how I want this country...