Question about Bill Clinton

[mello]

Quick question that maybe someone could answer for me:

Whenever I hear people talk about Bill Clinton, they mention that the Congressional Budget Office reported a budget surplus between the years 1998 and 2000, the last three years of Clinton's presidency.

I checked online & found this:

NATIONAL DEBT-
12/31/1993 CLINTON $4,535,687,054,406 (The beginning of his first term)
12/31/1994 CLINTON $4,800,149,946,143
12/31/1995 CLINTON $4,988,664,979,014
12/31/1996 CLINTON $5,323,171,750,783
12/31/1997 CLINTON $5,502,388,012,375
12/31/1998 CLINTON $5,614,217,021,195
12/31/1999 CLINTON $5,776,091,314,225
12/31/2000 CLINTON $5,662,216,013,697 (The end of his second term)

The National debt only went down on his last year, where did the money go from 1998 & 1999?

[mrsat_98]

The National debt only went down on his last year, where did the money go from 1998 & 1999?

Monica's dress maybe ?

[erowe1]

Quick question that maybe someone could answer for me:

Whenever I hear people talk about Bill Clinton, they mention that the Congressional Budget Office reported a budget surplus between the years 1998 and 2000, the last three years of Clinton's presidency.

I checked online & found this:

NATIONAL DEBT-
12/31/1993 CLINTON $4,535,687,054,406 (The beginning of his first term)
12/31/1994 CLINTON $4,800,149,946,143
12/31/1995 CLINTON $4,988,664,979,014
12/31/1996 CLINTON $5,323,171,750,783
12/31/1997 CLINTON $5,502,388,012,375
12/31/1998 CLINTON $5,614,217,021,195
12/31/1999 CLINTON $5,776,091,314,225
12/31/2000 CLINTON $5,662,216,013,697 (The end of his second term)

The National debt only went down on his last year, where did the money go from 1998 & 1999?

Interesting. I've checked before and found that there never was a single year that the debt was lower than the previous in recent history. The following numbers support that:

09/30/2001 5,807,463,412,200.06
09/30/2000 5,674,178,209,886.86
09/30/1999 5,656,270,901,615.43
09/30/1998 5,526,193,008,897.62
09/30/1997 5,413,146,011,397.34
09/30/1996 5,224,810,939,135.73
09/29/1995 4,973,982,900,709.39
09/30/1994 4,692,749,910,013.32
09/30/1993 4,411,488,883,139.38
09/30/1992 4,064,620,655,521.66
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/r...t/histdebt.htm
I wonder what accounts for the discrepancy. These numbers aren't attached to the exact same dates as yours. But that doesn't look like enough to explain it.

[devil21]

This may be what you're looking for.

http://www.craigsteiner.us/articles/16

[erowe1]

OP where did your numbers come from?

[HVACTech]

Bill Clinton was raised in Hot Springs AR.
for more information on Hot Springs AR visit.

http://www.tgmoa.com/