Originally Posted by Workshop_Willy

Not really. The "surplus" was a projection based on decreased defense spending and the largest tax hike in US history, passed in 1994 by the last democratic congress. In addition, congress (which has the main power in budgetary matters as if you didn't know) has been controlled by conservatives since the 1994 mid-term elections, largely as a backlash to the tax hike. So the "surplus" (ha ha ha) not only didn't really exist, what substance it had was not due to either conservative or liberal policies alone -- kind of a gray area in which resided a ghost.

Check your facts before accusing someone else of living in a black and white world.