It's hard to believe that there was actually a budget surplus. I know those two words haven't been used in the English language in a really long time, but those mid to late 90s, There actually was a budget surplus [in the mid to late 90s]. And it's hard to believe that we're just going in the completely the wrong direction. (10:32–10:37)
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Asserts that the United States had a budget surplus in the mid to late 1990s.
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