It's daunting to consider where we were five years ago, as we sat here on a surplus of 236 billion.
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.
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More deficits, more debt, and more denial.
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