Everything i've seen says the 06' deficit was only $169 bilDamn, don't you ever get tired of lying!!!!!!!!Not according to the very rules St Ronnie said should be used to calculate each president's debt!!! He said you start with the first FISCAL year for each president, which begins Oct 1, and you include the interest on the debt of each president. He told us that in his first speech as president. As the chart shows, the 8 fiscal years of Reagan plus the 4 fiscal years of Bush I and the 8 years of Bush II debts plus the interest on those debts comes to a little over $12 trillion.
You can blame a President for the debt if Congress is cooperative with him. When did Bush ever have full cooperation from Congress? Bush had spent 4 years trying to balance the budget and nearly had it done when the Dems took over. They took a deficit that was $169 billion and drove it up in two years to $1.7 trillion. Problem is the Dems are in control of Congress yet they've never passed a budget. I don't think they know how. But because of this, nobody knows how much has been spent or where.
First of all, Bush signed the budget, therefore he owns it. You might have an argument that congress owns it if Bush vetoed it and congress passed it over his veto, but that never happened.
And all you have to do is look at the deficits for each of Bush's fiscal years to see what a monumental lie your post is!!! Even with a GOP congress Bush was running up a half a trillion in debt each year, not any $169 billion.
Why are CON$ not the least bit ashamed of their lying??????
Government - Historical Debt Outstanding - Annual 2000 - 2010
Historical Debt Outstanding - Annual 2000 - 2010
Includes legal tender notes, gold and silver certificates, etc.
The first fiscal year for the U.S. Government started Jan. 1, 1789. Congress changed the beginning of the fiscal year from Jan. 1 to Jul. 1 in 1842, and finally from Jul. 1 to Oct. 1 in 1977 where it remains today.
To find more historical information, visit The Public Debt Historical Information archives.
Date
Dollar Amount
09/30/2010
13,561,623,030,891.79
09/30/2009
11,909,829,003,511.75
09/30/2008
10,024,724,896,912.49
09/30/2007
9,007,653,372,262.48
09/30/2006
8,506,973,899,215.23
09/30/2005
7,932,709,661,723.50
09/30/2004
7,379,052,696,330.32
09/30/2003
6,783,231,062,743.62
09/30/2002
6,228,235,965,597.16
09/30/2001
5,807,463,412,200.06
09/30/2000
5,674,178,209,886.86
FYI if all congress gives the prez to sign is a POS to sign then that indicates a shared responsibility to a rational person.