Mr. Speaker, when we went through a difficult period, it was to reduce the deficit from $42 billion to, what it hopefully will be this afternoon, the fourth year in a row that we will have a surplus.
During that period of time unemployment was at 11.5%. We had to keep programs operational in order to reduce unemployment. We have been successful because unemployment went from 11.5% down to 6.8%, the lowest in 25 years.