Sweetums wrote:
paulsol wrote:
Varus. Your anger is an energy. Just imagine what you could do with your life if you directed your energy somewhere useful....
U.S. president Party Term years Start debt/GDP End debt/GDP Increase debt/GDP Hoover R 1929–1933 16.3% 39.6% +23.6% <- start of great depression Roosevelt D 1933–1937 39.9% 39.6% -0.3% <- New Deal 1+2 Roosevelt D 1937–1941 39.6% 38.7% -0.9% Roosevelt D 1941–1945 38.7% 116.0% +77.3% <- WWII Roosevelt/Truman D 1945–1949 116.0% 93.1% -21.4% Harry Truman D 1949–1953 93.1% 70.1% -24.5% [...] Ronald Reagan R 1981–1985 31.9% 43.2% +11.3% \ Ronald Reagan R 1985–1989 43.2% 52.1% +8.9% |- Fiscal conservatives my *** George H. W. Bush R 1989–1993 52.1% 66.2% +14.0% / Bill Clinton D 1993–1997 66.2% 65.0% -1.2% \__ actually fiscally sound policy Bill Clinton D 1997–2001 65.0% 56.5% -8.5% / George W. Bush R 2001–2005 56.5% 62.8% +6.3% \__ caused our current crisis George W. Bush R 2005–2009 62.8% 83.3% +20.5% /