(May 28, 2016 at 4:42 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:(May 28, 2016 at 3:53 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: We've only had zero debt once in our history and it was for one day, January 8, 1835. We've always had domestic terrorism.
He reduced the debt by 10%, quite an achievement.
What world are you living in? The debt was 4,411,488,883,139.38 when Bill Clinton became president and
5,807,463,412,200.06 when he left.
https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/repo...histo5.htm
That's an increase of 31%. There was one year of a surplus mostly caused by the tech boom that gave rise to all sorts of goofy myths about Bill Clinton being responsible for all sorts of economy myths mostly believed in by diehard Clinton supports that can be dismissed with 2 seconds of using google.