RSSFederal Surpluses and Deficits 1968 – 2007
This chart provides a better view of the size of the surpluses and deficits. The largest surplus was $236 billion in 2000, and the largest deficit was $413 billion in 2004. The last bar on the right depicts the $162 billion deficit for 2007.
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June 4th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
hey nanagram6 isn’t it funny that as the Democrats started to take control of the House and Senate that the deficits started to shrink. Righstuff which air craft carrier would you have used to defend the towers.
September 1st, 2009 at 1:00 am
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