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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (729119)	3/4/2006 7:27:23 PM
From: JBTFD	Respond to of 769670

Actually it is $3 trillion debt added for the whole time Bush jr has been in office. The debt was somewhere in the neighborhood of $5 trillion when he took office. As far as I know no one has ever really had a surplus. It seems like it is against the conscience of politicians to let good money go unspent. : ( But Clinton to his credit came a lot closer to balancing the budget than any of the republican presidents in the last 25 years. Since Reagan the working republican philosophy has been to print and spend. They don't want to pay for the programs they want so they pass off increased national debt to the next generation.