Indeed busybee, it is all so familiar, the so called socialists; Democrats, Labour( aust) Labour ( UK ) etc etc.around the world blow out the defecit.
The conservatives; Republicans, Tory's, Liberals promise to restore it.
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Not counting Bush's single surplus taken from Clinton when batons were changed (similar to Costello inheriting a deficit from Keating post 1996) the last time a Republican produced a budget surplus was 1969.