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Originally Posted by sck5
wind magic
When the government runs a surplus it is reducing the debt. Clinton ran a suplus in his last years in office. He did reduce the debt in those years though it is true that overall across his whole term the debt grew because he started from a position of inheriting a big deficit (as dems always do when they follow repubs)
See this graph - the blue area at the end of Clinton represents paying down the debt. All of the pink areas are increasing debt. See if you can spot a trend for each president! (By the way, this data is from the Congressional Budget Office which was run by Repubs at the time this chart was made)
http://www.well.com/user/sunbear/deficit.jpg |
Sck5, you are right about his last few years, of course, I should have chosen my words more carefully.
