"The clinton administration left office with a surplus"

Absolutely never happened. Go back and look at the national debt during any and all of Clinton's 8 years. Never once did it go down. Can't have a surplus if you don't pay down the debt by definition. If you spent it on anything but principle pay down, then by definition, you spent it on expenses, and therefore no surplus. You shouldn't spread myths and you shouldn't be ignorant of such simple facts.