Originally Posted by host

ace....isn't it about the trend? The trend was reversed for the only time in the 30year period from 1970....from debt increasing at :

09/30/1993 .. $4,411,488,883,139.38
09/30/1992 .. $4,064,620,655,521.66

..... $346 billion, YOY....by the end of the last GHW Bush budget.....DOWN to $18 billion....YOY.... between 9/30/99 and 9/30/00.

...the bulk of the increase here:

09/30/2001 .. $5,807,463,412,200.06 YOY increase= $133 billion
09/30/2000 .. $5,674,178,209,886.86

....was the result of the retroactive, 2001 tax cut.

I don't understand the comparison that you just tried to post. Don't you see any negative in a trend that ramps up from increasing federal debt from $18 billion, YOY...to $420 billion...just two years later....then to mid $500's....and it just stays there....at that high level.....and is spun as declining, when it isn't....by the officials directly responisble for it happening.....

....followed by your absurd comparison of the Clinton vs. Bush debt increases.

I'm amazed at my patience....I really am.....