It seems strange, but just two decades ago the United States government had a balanced budget. Bill Clinton had run for president as a new type of Democrat, calling for an end to the deficits that had so bedeviled George H.W. Bush.
Thanks in large part to pressure from Newt Gingrich and the Republican Congress, he pulled it off.
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