That's an important and foreboding proviso, considering that a "budget surplus" is an impossible faerie tale, and years of deficit spending are just growing the interest payments. And rest assured that if a balanced budget were ever passed or some unexpected windfall occurred, the Congress would spend that shit faster than a drunken sailor in Olongapo on payday.
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Date: 2008-04-17 06:33 am (UTC)That's an important and foreboding proviso, considering that a "budget surplus" is an impossible faerie tale, and years of deficit spending are just growing the interest payments. And rest assured that if a balanced budget were ever passed or some unexpected windfall occurred, the Congress would spend that shit faster than a drunken sailor in Olongapo on payday.