Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130112:09:46:00
Jack lew's job in the clinton administration is that he was bill clinton's budget director in the final three years of his presidency. and it was during those final three years of the clinton presidency when the u.s. government for the first time in over a generation ran surpluses. washington took in more money in those years than it spent. take a look at this chart. you see those years in which the deficit stopped being a deficit, and instead became a surplus in those were the jack lew years. those were the years that jack lew was in charge of the budget. those were also the years in which de...