The 1998 fiscal year ended with a federal budget surplus of $70 billion, the first surplus in three decades. What do you think?
“We must’ve gotten all that money when we stopped buying those $3,000 hammers.”
Christopher Meacham • Delivery Driver
“I propose that a gold-doubloon-filled national vault be built in which all U.S. citizens may frolic and shout ’I’m rich! I’m rich!’”
Suzanne Gamble • Potter
“This is great. Now we can finally pay off .0000002 percent of the interest on the national debt.”
Meredith Wynegar • Mechanical Engineer
“Imagine that–all this happening right before an election. What luck.”
Jim Nettles • Science Teacher
“Seventy billion might seem like a lot but just wait until the government finds out how much tax it’ll have to pay on it.”
Rick Randolph • Systems Analyst
“Do you think we should put that money toward bailing out our bankrupt Social Security system? Me neither. PlayStations for all!”
Eric Milbourne • Student
