Here's the irony though. I lived through that Clinton era of govt surplus, and oh boy how you should have heard the Republicans/Conservatives screaming about how "it's our tax money, how dare they hold it!" and "they should spend it on something good, like infrastructure!" and "the economy works best when the govt works in a deficit!". I shit you not.

I bet all of them would KILL for a govt surplus instead of the huge deficits and national debt that we have now. They let political bias cloud their sanity.

^{(For the record I am a libertarian, a fiscal conservative)}