HappyJoy
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That link was when he left office so it's kind of irrelevant, right? However, I will say that one thing Bush did very well was increasing help to the AIDS epidemic in Africa. But why play double standards? Clinton also did a lot of good for Africa while in office and after and so did his wife.
A little consistency would be nice, no?
Then of course back to the original point of the OP, Trump isn't exactly helping anyone unless they can help him and that is our new low.
W and O are the two worse. There is no comparison.
Neither was the worst, W sucked, Obama was better and time will tell where he lands but he gets points for taking out bin Laden and pulling us away from financial ruin.
No, they're the worst. The two lied about foreign and domestic policy, ran the debt up from 4 to 20 trillion, led the ME into turmoil etc.
All president's lie, it's just that only one lies about pretty much everything.
Obama didn't have much of a choice but to run up the deficits early on, governments spend more money than they take in during economic downturns, it helps with the recovery. Bush spent and gave out tax cuts that weren't needed during prosperous times. Big difference.
Anyway, with what Trump is doing I wouldn't be complaining about deficits, that's going to be a continuing sore spot with the current asshole in the white house. Funny you even mention them.
There is no excuse for W, O, or trump to be running up excessive debt. None.
Actually there is. If the economy went into a depression you'd wished the government pumped a little more money into the economy.
But, now that Trump has a huge deficit and that debt is going to grow what are you going to do?