How do you think the situation would've been if Reagan, Bush Sr and Bush Jr would have produced balanced budgets?
A balanced budget is IMPOSSIBLE with our monetary system. A government that has to "borrow" it's own currency is in a cycle of perpetual debt. Clinton did not balance the budget or have a surplus. They stole from the Social Security Trust and replaced it with IOU's.
Federal reserve is formed in 1913. We then go bankrupt in 20 years with Roosevelt's confiscation of privately held gold. Federal Reserve tricked our government out of it's own gold by making it pay interest on the currency issued, while also providing the backing for it - in essence the government was paying interest on it's own gold.
with a debt currency, a balanced budget is impossible because there is not enough money in circulation to pay off both interest and principle. This means continued borrowing allowing the government to be overlayed with shell corporations and owned and controlled like any other corporation.
Our government is gone, the only way to recover as a sovereign nation is by conquest and seperating ourselves from the British Crown - something our founding fathers failed to do in the Revolutionary War.