BBC Reports US owes 9 billion
Not including the extra trillion.
Your right, its not deficit its debt. I still don't support is his excessive spending, along with everything else he stands for.
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You'll also notice that at no point during Clinton's reign did that bar go down. So he didn't really matter that he was running a surplus. If he couldn't cover the interest, then he wasn't technically running a surplus.
You know what else I notice with that graph. Every president since the mid 1960s has put the debt to the highest point ever. Because it has never gone down.
Next up, try adjusting those numbers for inflation.
To criticize Bush for having the debt the largest its ever been, means you have to criticize every president for the last 65 years.