GOP Budget Busting 101

[HikerGuy83]

Forget historical FACTS and go with your gut. Got it

Poppy had 17% of GDP in revenues his final F/Y (1993) October 1, 1992 to September 30, 1993


1994- Clinton first year - 17.5% GDP revenues
1995- Clinton 17.9%
1996- Clinton 18.3%
1997- Clinton 18.7%
1998- Clinton 19.3% (First Clinton BUDGET surplus)
1999- Clinton 19.3% (Second Clinton surplus)
2000- Clinton 20% (Third Clinton surplus)
2001- Clinton 18.9% (Fourth Clinton surplus)
How did BJ BILL CLINTON, take US from

• Debt-to-GDP Ratio (1993): ~64.0%. TO JUST 54.7% IN F/Y 2001

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Apr 6, 2026

Let's bypass that serial tax increaser, Poppy Bush for now and go to the best conservative Prez since Ike, BJ Bill

• Total Federal Debt (1993): ~$4.351 trillion (at fiscal end).
• Debt-to-GDP Ratio (1993): ~64.0%.

Wait, was Poppy a secret proliferate spender?



"During George H.W. Bush’s presidency (1989–1993), the U.S. national debt rose by approximately $1.55 trillion, representing a 54% increase over his four-year term. He inherited a large deficit from the Reagan administration and faced a struggling economy, which, along with the...

• JonKoch

I have not argued with any of this. Are you that blind.

I said...Clinton did a good job.

**** off. We are done.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Forget historical FACTS and go with your gut. Got it

I quoted these same facts earlier...in other threads.

All the while wishing a painful case of shingles on Bush.

So, no, I deal in facts.....MORON.

 

[JonKoch]

l get that you can't help but pork your Obama doll all the while starting at your Hillary Doll.

Fact is that Obama wasn't all that good. In fact, he was pretty bad.

Crappy leader....

Poor on spending.....you know...all those shovel ready jobs that SFB's like Paul Krugman were touting.

But nor arguing that Bush's terrible fiscal leadership handed Obama something that wasn't near as good as it could have been. NO WHERE NEAR.

But Obama sucked at trying to fix it.

Yeah, weird as the GOP fought EVERY single thing that would help US get out of the Dubya/GOP created hole

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell in October 2010. When asked if the GOP's goal was endless confrontation, McConnell said

"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."

 

[JonKoch]

Again...it doesn't matter because the context of those things tell a different story.

Biden's first deficit was in the middle of COVID...that goes to Biden and the Blue States. Suck on it.

So giving Trump something smaller was still a 1.7 trillion dollar deficit .....the last in a string of 1.5+ trilliion dollar deficits that he had run all the while "Bidenomics was working" (yeah....to run up inflaction).

Yep...Obama had the first trillion dollar deficit.

Once again, 13 days BEFORE Obama came into office

On January 7, 2009, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a grim report projecting an unprecedented federal budget deficit of $1.2 trillion for the 2009 budget year

THAT WAS DUBYA'S FINAL F/Y BUDGET CUPCAKE