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You mean the deficit. Not the debt - which is the real issue. Clinton did not reduce the debt. It increased every year under his Presidency.
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Yep. Albeit at a much slower rate than from 1980-1992 and 2000-2008. He used the SS surplus to claim there was a surplus. Here's a link
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/r...ebt_histo4.htm
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Bush has definitely been a disaster as President, but it's because he's been governing as a liberal statist in regards to the economy. The only positive thing he did was cut taxes, but that does you no good if you increase spending and continue to grow the size of government.
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Actually, instead of doing "no good" he actually did worse. They guy is a total disaster.
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Nevermind the fact that our enemy leveled two of our buildings, full of innocent civilians!!! What did you expect? A president to cower under his desk (oh, wait...that was his intern), and hope the bad guys go away? I'm glad we had a president who had the initiative to take the fight to these guys, instead of lobbing a single rocket into an aspirin factory, and puffing up his chest over his "accomplishments."
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Well that argument would be just swell. Except for one thing. This graph:
http://www.cedarcomm.com/~stevelm1/usdebt.htm
Please note that WWII, the Korean War and Vietnam were fought with barely a blip in terms of the national debt. The issue with your guy is not his war spending (other than the war being a total waste of time and money). It's his spending on everything else. The guy spends like a drunken socialist and all the numbers back it up. Non-military, discretionary spending has grown at a record pace under Bush. There is no way to spin the facts any other way. Sorry. The guy is full on fiscal liberal.