Trump said he would eliminate the national debt in eight years. He signed a republican bill increasing it more than ever.
Don't ever tell me republicans are fiscally responsible ever again. I'm sick of that bullshit. They are the opposite.
A person has to go back to Eisenhower to find an economically responsible republican president.
nixon took the national debt from 353,720,253,841.41 billion to 475,059,815,731.55 billion
Nixon was handed a balanced budget with a surplus of 3.2 Billion from LBJ. Too bad he wasted it. That deficit was 6.1 billion when he left office in disgrace.
ford took the national debt from 475,059,815,731.55 billion to 698,840,000,000.00.
He took that deficit from 6.1 billion to 53.7 billion.
Carter took the national debt from 698,840,000,000.00 to 997,855,000,000.00.
He took that deficit from 53.7 billion to 79 billion.
reagan took the national debt from 997,855,000,000.00 to 2,857,430,960,187.32.
For the first time in the history of the United States our national debt hit then crossed into the trillions. He caused the worst economic recession since the last republican Great Depression. He reversed the United States from being the larges creditor nation in the world to the largest debtor nation in the world. He started the conservative policy of huge tax cuts for the rich and big business and spend out of control.
reagan took that deficit from 79 billion to 152.6 billion.
bush the first took the national debt from 2,857,430,960,187.32 to 4,411,488,883,139.38.
He took us to the edge of another economic crash but it was avoided because the nation elected Bill Clinton in 1992.
He took the deficit from 152.6 billion to 255.1 billion.
Clinton took the national debt from 4,411,488,883,139.38 to 5,807,463,412,200.06.
Bill Clinton cleaned up the mess that reagan/bush left behind.
He took that deficit from 255.1 billion to zero. He balanced that budget starting in 1998. By the time Clinton left office the deficit had been turned into a surplus of 128.2 billion.
He slowed the policy of taxing the rich and big business by raising taxes for the rich. He slowed spending. He left a plan to have the reagan/bush national debt paid off by 2010.
The bush boy took the national debt from 5,807,463,412,200.06 to 13 trillion. He kept his wars off the general fund but when Obama became president, those wars were added to the general fund which over night caused the national debt to skyrocket to 13 trillion. He collapsed the economy and handed Obama the worst economic crash since the last republican Great Depression.
The bush boy took that budget surplus of 128.2 billion to a deficit of 1.4 trillion. The first time in the history of the United States our budget deficit crossed the 1 trillion mark.
It was too bad that the bush boy didn't continue Clinton's economic policy. If he had, the national debt would have been paid off by 2010. It's just too bad he continued the republican irresponsible economic policy of huge tax cuts for the rich and big business and spend out of control.
Obama took that 13 trillion to 19,573,444,713,936.79. He was handed the worst economic crash since the last republican Great Depression. He prevented another republican great depression.
He took that 1.4 trillion budget deficit to 665 billion. He slashed that deficit by nearly 1 trillion dollars. He slowed the irresponsible republican economic policy of big tax cuts for the rich and big business. He increased taxes on the rich. He slowed spending.
trump has taken that 19,573,444,713,936.79 to 21,516,058,183,180.23. Thus far as of the end of September 2018.
He returned the United States to the irresponsible economic police of big tax cuts for the rich and big business and spending out of control.
He took that budget deficit from 665 billion to 833 billion as of the end of September 2018. With projections of the deficit to skyrocket over 1 trillion in 2019. We will see what actually happens.
If you can do simple addition and subtraction you will see that it's republican presidents who are the most economically irresponsible. They have not been economically responsible since Eisenhower. It didn't just start recently.
