Since the Roosevelt administration, has the US ever had a balanced budget?
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Clinton actually had the largest surplus in history.
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United States Gov./treasury
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Proper change is proper change.  Paying taxes is not balancing the budget, as we have seen with the republicunts. In Europe they pay a higher tax rate but have more services for all people across the board, plus they pay no tax in their retirement years.  I would rather pay higher taxes and have health insurance then supply the military for the world.
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Hi,\n\nWell I dound an interesting website that gives an overview of the federal budget. Take a look at : http://www.federalbudget.com/  .\n\nGood Luck!
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The U.S. had two Roosevelts as president. Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy included building a strong navy. By 1907, the U.S. had the world's third largest naval fleet, thanks to his Great White Fleet which circumnavigated the globe in order to demonstrate U.S. military power and navy capability. He also initiated construction on  the Panama Canal, which helped expedite world commerce. One of his failed attempts at activism was inviting Booker T. Washington to be the first African American to dine in the White House. Reaction from whites was so negative, Roosevelt never again attempted it. Roosevelt did, however, earn a Nobel Peace Prize for helping negotiate the end of the Russo-Japanese War. He also settled a dispute between France and Germany over the division of Morocco.\n\nAs for Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy, his Good Neighbor Policy helped withdraw troops from Haiti and ended Cuba and Panama's statuses as U.S. protectorates. The Montevideo Convention renounced the right to intervene unilaterally in the affairs of Latin American countries. FDR's foreign policy for his second term included the Neutrality Act in 1935, an act defined as applying a mandatory ban on the shipment of arms from the U.S. to any combatant nation in World War II; Roosevelt initially rejected it, but signed it amidst huge public support. The Lend-Lease Act of 1941 allowed the U.S. to "lend" huge amounts of military equipment in return for "leases" on British naval bases in the Western Hemisphere. His third term was dominated by World War II; he developed the Atlantic Charter along with Winston Churchill in August 1941, which was a negotiation between Allied Powers. He also signed the declaration of war against Japan in 1941 after the attack on Pearl Harbor.\n\nI hope some of this helps.
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It has cost us billions, but I have been told by our administration that it is worth every penny because we have a democratic Iraq. But I sure miss the days when our priorities were social security for our aging grandparents, affordable health insurance, education for our children, creating good paying jobs, cheap gas, and the support of down and out Americans. Now, I can only imagine what it would be like if the USA had no deficit and our money had stayed home to invigorate and protect our quality of life.  (sigh!)
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Honorable President William Jefferson Clinton balanced the budget and had a surplus!!!!!!!!
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The New Deal consisted of a lot of government initiatives and new programs designed to jump start and rebalance the economy after the Great Depression.
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Yes and if there were more men like Teddy Roosevelt I would be Republican. During his term Roosevelt aquired more federal land for National Parks and Monuments then any president in history. He is the sole reason for Yellow Stone National Park. The true conservative is a wonderful person, in my eyes. They place a high value on schooling and the national budget. What we have now, and for a long time, is the party of the Neo Con(victs). It has been around since Nixon and will continue to be that way until we as Americans demand more from our elected officals.
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In 2001, the budget had a surplus of $127 billion.\n\nHowever, the US had a national debt of $5.8 trillion that same year, so...
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Yes, it was one of the most significant achievements of the Clinton administation. It resulted in deficit reduction for all eight years of the administration, and finally brought the US fiscal house in order after 12 years of Republican budget mismanagement.\n\nFor more information, try:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_Budget_Reconciliation_Act_of_1993\n\nFor the actual text of the law:\nhttp://naic.acf.hhs.gov/general/legal/federal/pl103_66.cfm\n\nFor a report on the consequences:\nhttp://www.clevelandfed.org/Research/Com93/1015.pdf
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Here's a statistic to blow your mind. The Great Depression caused 1 out of every 3 Americans to be unemployed. Only with Roosevelt's plan of giving them government project work did America rise back up as a renewed superpower.
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It seems to me that this is wishful thinking. It's far more likely that the increased SPENDING has caused the rise in government collections, as the increased spending, of course, translates into more money pumped into the economy and thus higher incomes for corporations and individuals. Of course, the increase in spending doesn't cause sufficient increase in revenue to offset the total amount of deficit being created, thus the federal deficit is mushrooming.\n\nIt is also interesting to blame BOTH parties for the increase in spending when the Republicans have been in charge of both Congress and the Presidency for some time.\n\nI'll be happy to vote to make the tax cuts permanent when it is shown that they can be sustained while we address the massive debt burden we are imposing on our children.
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I do believe every administration had several. I do not recall them all but here are a few really good ones.\nWarren Harding and the Teepot Dome scandal where his administration gave away navel oil reserves in exchange for bribes.\n\nUlysses Grant administration had so many scandals that they are almost too numerous to recount here. But Credit Mobilier is worth a mention. The builders of the Union Pacific railway had a scheme to create a company called Credit Mobilier to handle the construction of the railroad and charge the railroad exorbitant fees which then went into their pockets. They thought that congress might intervene so they distributed blocks of credit mobilier stock to key Republican congressmen and the vice president Schuyler Colfax. \n\nBut let us not pick on only the Repulican administrations. There was good old Andrew Jackson. He shipped all the Cherokees off to Oklahoma so his friends could steal their land. Not bad. Even got his picture on the $20 bill for doing that. I think Grant got his picture on the $50 for his contributions to corruption. Can't wait to see where they stick Clinton and GWB's pictures. \n\nI could go on for page after page but that should give you an idea.
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i sense a homework question.\n\nSince they were in a Great Depression stage after Hoover's administration, FDR decided to do a complete makeover for the country.\n\nHis first days in office was an overhaul of the lassaiz-faire government and replaced it with hands-on government. He decided to have government funded projects to get people out of poverty as well as clean up the government which Coolidge's and Harding's administration left behind.
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Yes Clinton did an excellent job not only with the economy but with the government's budget.  There was a government surplus meaning that more money was coming in than was being spent and it helped to reduce the huge debt built up by past presidents.  Now Bush is adding to that debt by spending more money than what comes in.\n\n*Diamond Dave - you didn't provide any facts in your answer below.  You should really quote your sources if you want to make such outlandish claims.
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Health and Human Services (Which includes Urban Development, and Welfare) comes in at number one with a yearly projected budget of 650 Billion Dollars. Department of Defense is number two with a projected budget of around 515 Billion Dollars, and the Treasury Department is number 3 with a projected budget of 415 Billion Dollars (mostly due to the interest we pay on the national debt.)\n\nThe next largest after that is a huge drop with the Department of Agriculture with a projected budget of around 90 Billion.\n\n\nPlease Note that Social Security is not part of the Federal Budget general fund. It is a separate account and has its own source of income. As a comparison though, Social Security has an estimated budget of 500 Billion. \n\nFission