Nevermind the debt has increase from $3 trillion back in 2000 to the $9 trillion plus it is today.
Actually the deb was $6 trillion in 2000. We haven't seen a $3 trillion debt since about 1990. We had hit $4 trillion by 1992, which should be hard to forget, because Ross Perot was slamming that down that nation's throat via informercials. Source: http://www.cedarcomm.com/~stevelm1/usdebt.htm
Yeah, Bush is so right wing that he has increased the size of government at a record rate.... like the liberals did when they were in power the past 40 years.
Yeah, Bush is so right wing he's increased the debt incredibly ....like the liberals did when they were in power the past 40 years.
You might want to check the link I posted just above this. There's a pretty distinct pattern showing debt rising when a Republican president is in office, starting with Reagan.
Clinton actually balanced the budget and left a surplus (although doing nothing to reduce the national debt).
Err, Clinton didn't balance the budget by himself. You've repeated the claim that we were $3 trillion in debt in 2000, which indicates that you're not aware of what was happening in the early-mid 90's when that was actually what the national debt was, so I'll recap:
In 1994 the Republicans swept up majorities in both houses. Clinton couldn't get his budget by them. The Federal government actually
shut down because of this. In the end, the only thing Clinton could get through was a balanced budget. The Republicans had to do that. They wouldn't have maintained their majority come 1996 if they didn't.
Granted, by 2000 they'd all apparently taken up heavy drinking as a hobby, because that's when they started spending like drunken sailors, which brings me to the first point that you made:
Yeah. That's (Gridlock) what the founding fathers said and why you inherited all the freedoms you have
Yes, gridlock is exactly what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they created our system of government. Why do you think we have a bicameral legislature? Veto powers? Veto overrides? They fully intended a system that made it difficult to change the existing laws or even pass a budget in this country.
That's why we saw a balanced budget under Clinton, which you praise, while knocking the very system of government that delivered it.