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Originally Posted by stickyfingerz
Did you actually look at the graph, cause it shows exactly what he said Clinton did.
"CLINTON INCREASED THE DEBT !
According to the debt statistics at the Office of Management and Budget, the national debt was $4.351 trillion prior to the first fiscal budget authorized by President Clinton in 1994. When he left office in 2001, the debt was $5.770 trillion at the end of that fiscal year."
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Link or site your source, please.... so that it may be scrutinized.
Everything I've read - and I've read more than most on the subject - has lauded Clinton's term for paying down the debt in record amounts. He was an economist, and reportedly took his reigns on the country's economy seriously.
Here's one such example - centerpiecing an unedited graph taken from the White House archives - as a percentage of the GNP:
http://zfacts.com/p/318.html
Your quoted statement sounds like blatant propaganda to me, as it stands.
