Sentence examples for surpluses debt from inspiring English sources

Since then his administration has produced balanced budgets, year-end surpluses, debt reductions, workforce reductions, union givebacks and higher credit ratings.

He pledged surpluses and debt reduction and, in his first year in office, to create 1m jobs.

So we created an index of 'fiscal difficulty' that shows the biggest challenge ahead for advanced economies is to maintain budget surpluses until debt ratios return to lower levels.

If Congress and the Bush administration decided to use the entire non-Social Security surplus for debt reduction, the government would be out of redeemable debt and awash in unused surpluses within five years.

A primary deficit or surplus excludes debt service and some other costs.

When the federal government runs a surplus, private debt almost always increases.

Democrats would like to direct a larger share of the surplus toward debt reduction.

There is already broad bipartisan support for saving the Social Security surplus for debt reduction.

Mr. Gore has called for using nearly all of the Social Security surplus for debt reduction.

Thus the Republicans' plan only commits $42 billion in new funds -- or about 16percentt -- of the surplus for debt reduction.

This time, however, oil exporters seem to be spending less, instead running larger external surpluses, repaying debts and building up assets.