Word: surplus
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...change is in order. In the past eight years the American people have built and fueled a miracle: the greatest economic engine in the history of the world. Income up, standard of living up, investment up. The deficit has become a surplus. We are fat and almost happy. Once Rabbit was rich; now Rabbit is rolling, with a Rolex, with a Beemer and a Benz...
...Colorado initiative seeks to increase per-student spending on education by the rate of inflation plus 1% for the next 10 years and at the rate of inflation thereafter. The state would also use at least $50 billion in surplus revenue for the next five years to fund new math and science programs at public schools...
HEALTH CARE Gore will use $253 billion of the budget surplus between now and 2010 for prescription-drug coverage for the elderly under Medicare. Bush devotes $110 billion to overhaul Medicare and relies on the as yet undemonstrated goodwill of insurance companies to provide a drug benefit. Whenever Gore brings up this subject or Social Security or any threat to the elderly, he's accused of scare tactics. I should hope...
...down-the middle Congress; the next president will find it exceedingly difficult to govern, and in the markets' estimation that's okeydoke. Which is why a President-elect Gore, being the more combative candidate, would likely get his own round of market plaudits - gridlock means guaranteed use of the surplus for debt repayment, and nothing about Washington fills the markets' sails like a really good Plan B - a priority additionally endorsed by the Almighty Greenspan...
...through all that, the American people have continued on with their work and their families and their lives, and fueled an economic expansion that today, in the year 2000, has left the federal government in Washington with a budget surplus of 4 trillion dollars...