>>You are worng on that. The government was spending less than they took in following the Gramm Rudman act. That doesn't mean that we had a national debt of zero though.

Thats just word play/accounting games. The government continues to incur debt while claiming that they spend less. The national debt has increased . . . that increase in debt must be counted. iF there were a true surplus, the debt would not increase (in fact the surplus shpuld be used to reduce the debt).

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