Actually we owe China $1.2 trillion. We owe Japan much more.
Course Bush didn't do it by himself. He needed Congress to agree with him. I remember the Dems saying it wasn't enough. It was never enough for them. So they borrowed from the Social Security/Medicare fund.
But guess what!
Obama borrowed $400 billion this weekend from the fund. First time that I know of a president doing so.
You're lying through your teeth again. Look at the goodam chart then find someting which says Clinton's surplus had anything to do wiith the ss trust fund. You can 't find it because it isn't there.
Bullshit.. Clinton NEVER ran surplus and left Bush $5,800,000,000,000 of debt. Clinton used intra-governmental borrowings (SS Trust) fund rather than public borrowings to give the illusion he wasn't borrowing as much.
hat's a goddam Republican lie! What part of cutting taxes for his rch buddies and corporations, starting two goddam wars, one totally by choice and doubling the national debt is it you fail to understand
Total U S Debt
09/30/2009 $11,909,829,003,511.75
(80% Of All Debt Across 232 Years Borrowed By Reagan And Bushes)
09/30/2008 $10,024,724,896,912.49
(Times Square Debt Clock Modified To Accomodate Tens of Trillions)
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
(Second Bush Tax Cuts Enacted Using Reconciliation)
09/30/2002 $6,228,235,965,597.16
09/30/2001 $5,807,463,412,200.06
(First Bush Tax Cuts Enacted Using Reconciliation)
09/30/2000 $5,674,178,209,886.86
(Administration And Congress Arguing About How To Use Surplus)
09/30/1999 $5,656,270,901,615.43
(First Surplus Generated...On Track To Pay Off Debt By 2012)
09/30/1998 $5,526,193,008,897.62
09/30/1997 $5,413,146,011,397.34
09/30/1996 $5,224,810,939,135.73
09/29/1995 $4,973,982,900,709.39
09/30/1994 $4,692,749,910,013.32
09/30/1993 $4,411,488,883,139.38
(Debt Quadrupled By Reagan/Bush41)
09/30/1992 $4,064,620,655,521.66
09/30/1991 $3,665,303,351,697.03
09/28/1990 $3,233,313,451,777.25
09/29/1989 $2,857,430,960,187.32
09/30/1988 $2,602,337,712,041.16
09/30/1987 $2,350,276,890,953.00
09/30/1986 $2,125,302,616,658.42
09/30/1985 $1,823,103,000,000.00
09/30/1984 $1,572,266,000,000.00
09/30/1983 $1,377,210,000,000.00
09/30/1982 $1,142,034,000,000.00
(Total Debt Passes $1 Trillion)
09/30/1981 $997,855,000,000.00