After all, theirs was the party that took the Clinton surpluses and turned them into deficits as far as the eye could see.
Here in Virginia we see results, solutions, job growth, surpluses, and cooperation.
Governments run deficits and surpluses and God has nothing to say about it, he adds.
Was the big debate in 2000 really about “What are we going to do with trillions in surpluses?”
The federal government was running annual surpluses, paying down our national debt, and bringing some stability to the economy.
Taxation had been increased; deficits had taken the place of surpluses; no legislative achievements could be discovered.
That there is no object of general utility to which these surpluses can be applied.
Don't forget that they have already traded with one another, and that these surpluses yet remain.
The chief embarrassments have arisen, not from deficits, but from surpluses.
It is an interesting question whether there may not be surpluses of some other Chinese products to be similarly drawn upon.
An unsold quantity of a good resulting from a lack of equilibrium in a market. For example, if a price is artificially high, sellers will bring more goods to the market than buyers will be willing to buy. (Compare shortage.)
