The balanced budget had nothing to do with Ross Perot. It was Newt and the Republicans in Congress who managed that. I’m surprised at some of the warped thinking on this forum. Ross Perot dropped out of the race, once he divided the Republican vote which insured Clinton a win - and was never to be heard from again. Possibly, he was a Clinton supporter who did his job very well. I heard Michael Savage say that Ross donated to the Clinton campaign.
My goodness. Were you alive in ‘92? Dole and Co. had no interest. Remember “He’ll have his honey moon but I’ll be his chaperone”? Perot made the case for the balanced budget with weekly 1/2 hour network buys and got people behind him. It was Newt and Co. that carried it out.
How much is Newt talking about a balanced budget today? Nada. It’s all “grow our way out of it”, “Lean Six Sigma”, “No right wing social engineering” and other BS.
Here, I looked up Newt’s issues page for you http://www.newt.org/solutions . The deficit doesn’t even merit a mention.