oh, well that changes everything. If it is on the Internet it must be true.

Well, at least with this level of intelligence you probably do not show up at the polling place until a week after the election if at all.

you don't have any idea how much it pains me to agree with bringer, but damn you are scary.

sorry, i was 4 when he got out of office. all i know is what i read and from that ive learned he increased spending on defense and built the military to what it is today. in all my years in school, there was no mention of him tripling the national debt.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/rr40.html

"In 1986 Reagan obtained an overhaul of the income tax code, which eliminated many deductions and exempted millions of people with low incomes. At the end of his administration, the Nation was enjoying its longest recorded period of peacetime prosperity without recession or depression."

dont worry, soon ill have complete mindcontrol over you and you will become one of my minions :1orglaugh

Very close to tripling.

Also, the debt as a percentage of GDP increased from 33% when Reagan took office to 50% when he left. When Bush left it was 64%. When Clinton left it was 58%. Right now, it's about 60%.

very interesting, ill try and remember that

I think you made an earlier comment about "just because its posted on democrats.com doesnt make it fact." The same thing applies to whitehouse.gov

It is called propaganda. I am sure if you looked at the site when Clinton was president it said something dofferent.

and while Alienq is equally as disturbing as you are, Clinton was the best president we have had in many, many years.

Reagan was the only reaon why most people even understood what the word trillion meant. As I recall, we had a 4 trillion dollar deficit by the time we got rid of him

I will take a bullet to the brain before that happens, trust me

A few of my bookmarks:

US debt: http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm

Great site for GDP data.
http://www.bea.gov/bea/dn/nipaweb/Ta...=2003&Freq=Qtr

For example, Look up 1945 on both pages.
Debt 258.7 billion
GDP 223.0 billion

So you can see the debt/gdp ratio was actually higher in 1945 than it is today (It ballooned from pre-war figure of about 43% to greater than 100% by end of war )

In 1950, it was still 87%.

:1orglaugh
clinton was a joke who got lucky with the internet boom
i could careless about the whole bj bullshit, but his policy was idiotic.

What about his economic policy did you disagree with?

what policy was idiotic?

his foreign policy?

im going to bed, we can continue tommorro once my mind is clear.

Ahhh. I thought you meant economic.

I would think conservatives would have liked Clinton's foreign policy. Bosnia, Haiti, bombing of Iraq. Reminiscent of Reagan's limited operations (Libya, Grenada, and Lebanon).

hey, we have to test new technologies somewhere, and Canada is too close.

what about his foreign policy? no matter what position we take someone isn't going to be happy.

the question you have to ask is are you better off now than you were before he took office, and when he was president, we were better off than when Bush was pres.

will be interesting to see if it helps :winkwink:

Not surprisingly, people are pretty split.

CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll. June 9-10, 2003. N=1,029 adults nationwide. .

"Do you think the country was better off with Bill Clinton as president, or is better off with George W. Bush as president?" Options were rotated

Clinton 46%
Bush 49%
No Opinion 5%

Yes Reagan did, look it up. And yes there was a surplus under Clinton for almost every one of his 8 years. Clinton inherited a fucking mess if you look back to 1992. Look at some stats on national debt, you can even go back further and see who increased it.

Yeh ok, and who do you replace him with? Oh forgot we got the terminator now. Yeh that's the ticket.