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I'm not saying that Clinton's policies led to that result--they account for only part of the good news about the deficit, and hardly any of the rest.
See Budget Policy: Prompt Action Necessary to Avert Long-Term Damage to the Economy (GAO/OCG-92-2, June 5, 1992), The Deficit and the Economy: An Update of Long-Term Simulations (GAO/AIMD/OCE-95-119, April 26, 1995), Budget Issues: Deficit Reduction and the Long Term (GAO/T-AIMD-96-66, March 13, 1996), Budget Issues: Analysis of Long-Term Fiscal Outlook (GAO/AIMD/OCE-98-19, October 22, 1997), Budget Issues: Long-Term Fiscal Outlook (GAO/T-AIMD/OCE-98-83, February 25, 1998), Budget Issues: July 2000 Update of GAO's Long-Term Simulations (GAO/AIMD-00-272R, July 26, 2000), and Long-Term Budget Issues: Moving From Balancing the Budget to Balancing Fiscal Risk (GAO-01-385T, February 6, 2001).
The effect: Sports news for Attention Deficit Disorder victims: lots of bite-sized items on very busy pages, lots of photo portraits of sports stars, none of SI 's in-depth features.
In fact, an economic downturn of any significant size would destroy efforts to balance the budget in 2002, and could push the deficit back toward $200 billion.
Mid-campaign, the state's economy, which Dukakis was referring to as "the Massachusetts miracle," sank, creating a huge government budget deficit and threatening the state's financial solvency.