94 percent of Americans don't know the budget deficit is getting smaller

[SemiAuto]

Wow, a financial crisis led to a massive recession and the deficit went up. Shocking.

Never mind then that deficit spending was bad before that and it was a helluva lot smaller.

Is the budget deficit getting smaller? Yes.
Is it still freaking huge? Absolutely.

The koskids in their alternative betaverse have no sense of proportion.

[Joy in Mudville]

Even when Clinton had a surplus the national debt still rose. I guess you are one of the posters ms maggie was claiming didn't know the difference between the deficit and the national debt.

You have a selective memory. The US began paying down the publicly held debt at the end of the Clinton years and we were in a position to eliminate the publicly held debt by the end of the 00's but Bush immediately torpedoed that. And, he got support from Greenspan who actually warned Congress about paying down the debt.