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To: koan who wrote (42170)	4/27/2013 9:53:11 PM
From: longnshort	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

"Bill clinton almost had the debt paid off until Bush came along and said the "government should not have so much money, so I will give it back to the rich who's money it is"." man you are as dense as Stewart not knowing the difference between debt and deficit. you do know the debt went up every year under clinton, don't you

To: koan who wrote (42170)

4/28/2013 12:57:29 AM

From: i-node

8 Recommendations Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 85487

>> We dems almost had the debt paid off.

Right, genius. Here is the national debt by year. Perhaps you can tell us exactly which year "you dems" paid any of it off.

09/30/2001	5,807,463,412,200.06
09/30/2000	5,674,178,209,886.86

09/30/1999	5,656,270,901,615.43
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
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