In order to solve the problem of the deficit, it helps if you don't CREATE ONE out of the highest surplus in history."
Well this is not true at all , but you would have to do a small amount of math to provbe it.
Take any year in the last twenty that the government showed a "surplus" , during that year you will find that there was a national debt nearly as large as the previous year , Clinton did very little to pay down the Debt and squandered the oppurtunity .
Also....
Take any one of those years "surplus" in tax receipts , subtract the Social Security tax recipt and vollia! same sort of deficit as any other year.
Social Security should never have been stolen and given to the general fund where it enabled the government to grow like crazy without justifying anything.
Social security Tax recipts peaked during the Clinton era , this would have happened for anyone .