Politics and Religion
You're using a source thats 5 years old and shows the debt at $14T?....eT
A good visual showing one reason G.W. is still toxic to the Republican brand!
Perhaps, much of the debt remaining under Reagan was for the legal fees spent for the defense of his various administration members. Just kidding!Oh, and spending is not the only thing that contributes to our debt level. So does reducing taxes. Particularly, when you are spending more for two wars.
Bush's numbers obviously include most of 2009 with the rationale (right or wrong that 3/4 of 2009 was under Bush's budget so of course Obama's final numbers need to run through FY 2017. So let's start with today's deficit of $19T (a little large-should actually use the debt from 2 months ago)
Bush - 42.7% of 14.3 = 6.1TA move toward austerity, or repairing infrastructure?
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