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Anonymous asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Since Bill Clinton added $1,539,684,631,121.04 to the national debt during his term that means that?

$192,460,578,890.13 per year was added to the debt.

That comes out to $527,289,257.23 PER DAY of new debt added during Clinton's term

Isn't it funny to still see Liberals go on and on about the Clinton surpluses?

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?applicat...

Update:

The difference between Bush adding to the debt and Clinton adding to the debt is that morons keep going on and on about the great Clinton surpluses. $527 million a day in new debt is no surplus.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Surplus was about the reducing the deficit, not the debt. The federal government was spending less. That was because of pay-go rules and President Clinton's veto pen. In the first two years of office, President Clinton decreased non-legal-mandatory spending. Something President Bush failed to do with a Republican Congress. If you had kept on the track that President Clinton had laid, the national debt would have been gone.

    If you compare the debt growth of the President Clinton and of President Bush, you will see President Clinton adding to the national debt at slower rate of 25% over 8 years compared to the 46% rate that President Bush added to the debt.

    No matter, what way you cut it, President Clinton was more fiscal responsible than any Republican President.

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    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Again, you continue to fail to understand the obvious difference between the Debt and the annual budget deficit/surplus.

    Just because he added to the overall debt in his eight years doesn't mean that he didn't run a surplus in some of those years.

    And while you're smirking, please explain how Bush added $4.9 TRILLION to the Debt.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Cleveland 09/15/10

    Yo,..Dude,.?!? Hey,..lighten up,.!?? Olde Clinton,.may have faults,..but,..the run-a-way debt,..not

    be one of them,. Remember,..in all of the times,.? Clinton presented to the American people A BALANCED BUDGET,.?!? Oh,.man,.?!! Do your home work,..Merely,.look up a few facts,.!?

    George W. Bush,..George W. Bush,.?!! He wrecked the Molly B,.Go figure,.!

    Eliasis Yahwehei ( The Main Man )

  • 1 decade ago

    Multiply $527M by 3 and you get Bush's debt per day.

    And Bush is the 'conservative'.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Those in charge now have far exceeded Clinton's spending, and every other president for that matter.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    As compared to Dumbya's $7,455,788,932,2477.14 addition (+ 1.3T deficit his final year and record deficits his entire term)?

  • 1 decade ago

    im sure bush didnt help any

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