RE: MSNBC Caught Misrepresenting Clip from Romney/Ryan Rally
September 29, 2012 at 7:19 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2012 at 7:23 pm by CapnAwesome.)
Anyway, back on topic, this doesn't surprise me at all in terms of MSNBC. All those news organizations are crap, I mean you can like your bullshit left-wing flavor or right-wing flavor, but I've never really developed a taste for eating shit myself.
I actually fucked up my numbers initially and corrected them in my original post, but the point stands that Clinton didn't pay doubt the national debt at all.
All of it is irrelevant anyway, we tend to think that the president is this entity with control over so much. He doesn't make or vote on budgets, his only say is with his veto stamp. It's a bit of irony when someone gives credit to Clinton for the one year of measley budget surplus, because they are unwittingly giving credit to the Republican congress at the time.
(September 29, 2012 at 7:13 pm)Polaris Wrote:(September 29, 2012 at 7:07 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Clinton didn't pay down the national debt at all. Not a cent. It was $6,657,400,000,000 before his presidency, and $9,817,000,000,000 afterwards. It increased by almost the exact same percentage as during George W. Bushes presidency and it went up every single year. I think you have the budget surplus confused with the debt.
I think it improved a bit six months after Bush took office and was only halted by the costs of the conflict in Iraq.
I actually fucked up my numbers initially and corrected them in my original post, but the point stands that Clinton didn't pay doubt the national debt at all.
All of it is irrelevant anyway, we tend to think that the president is this entity with control over so much. He doesn't make or vote on budgets, his only say is with his veto stamp. It's a bit of irony when someone gives credit to Clinton for the one year of measley budget surplus, because they are unwittingly giving credit to the Republican congress at the time.
