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To: napscoordinator
Interesting information from another website that tracks the national debt by president (these are the presidents in my lifetime) ...

Under Nixon, the national debt grew by 34%.

Under Ford, it grew by 47% -- and that was over less than four years.

Carter: 43% (remarkably low compared to what comes next)

Reagan: an astonishing 186% (the highest figure since FDR) -- it's remarkable how utterly irresponsible that guy was when it came to fiscal matters.

George H. W. Bush: 54% -- and that was in just four years.

Bill Clinton: 32% -- this misfit comes across as the most fiscally responsible President of my lifetime other than Trump.

George W. Bush: 105% -- this is what "compassionate conservatism" and a war criminal in the White House gets you.

Barack Obama: 70% -- even this Marxist had limits, apparently. I'm genuinely shocked this number is so low.

Donald J. Trump: 34% -- and this number is highly misleading because it probably would have been about 18% were it not for the massive COVID relief funding bills from his last ten months in office.

59 posted on 08/11/2021 9:51:56 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: Alberta's Child
Reagan: an astonishing 186% (the highest figure since FDR) -- it's remarkable how utterly irresponsible that guy was when it came to fiscal matters.

That is pure Bull $h!t. Reagan's policies were great and federal revenues grew by almost 100% in 8 years. He was lied to about the cuts. Quit spreading half truths you globalist loser.

63 posted on 08/11/2021 9:58:23 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Alberta's Child

Percentages are misleading....for example Pres. Obama rang up $8.3 Trillion in debt in 8 years for a 69.98% increase in debt, whereas RR rang up $1.86 Trillion in debt over 8 years for his 186% increase.

https://www.self.inc/info/us-debt-by-president/#total


94 posted on 08/12/2021 5:40:11 AM PDT by Drago
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