The 1998 fiscal year ended with a federal budget surplus of $70 billion, the first surplus in three decades. What do you think?

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  We must've gotten all that money when we stopped buying those $3,000 hammers.

  Christopher Meacham
  Delivery Driver

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  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

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  This is great. Now we can finally pay off .0000002 percent of the interest on the national debt."

  Meredith Wynegar
  Mechanical Engineer

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  Imagine that–all this happening right before an election. What luck.

  Jim Nettles
  Science Teacher

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  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

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  Do you think we should put that money toward bailing out our bankrupt Social Security system? Me neither. PlayStations for all!

  Eric Milbourne
  Student