GWBush took office and the debt was $6 trillion...
therefore, he jacked up the debt by $4 trillion in 8 years
Bush increased debt by 1.2 trillion in his first six years from a starting point of 4.7 trillion. Then the dims took congress and debt went up a lot faster. 3.1 trillion in two years. Since January 07 debt has increased ten trillion.
$4.7 trillion? this is just inaccurate. the national debt was $4.7 trillion in roughly 1994.
$6 trillion was the number i remembered off the top of my head... and after looking it up, i found that it was about $5.7 trillion when GW took office.
by Jan 2007, GW's first 6 years, the US debt was roughly $8.6 trillion... an increase of ~$2.9 trillion, or $433 billion/yr
from there, as the dems took over in Jan 2007, the debt climbed to roughly $10.2 trillion by Jan 2009. an increase of $1.6 trillion, or $800 billion/yr
from Jan 2009, when 0failure took over, the debt has jumped to $15.8 trillion today. that's an increase of $5.6 trillion in a little over 3 years. this would be about $1.86 trillion/year... or FOUR TIMES the spending rate of GW and the GOP congress in 2001-2007. it's also more then DOUBLE the spending of the dem congress of 2007-2009.
sources:
now http://usdebtclock.org/
2000 - 2010 http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt_histo5.htm
1950 - 1999 http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt_histo4.htm