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11. Bush was handed $4.8T over 9 years, enough to pay the entire public debt off by 2009

Reply to EarlG (Original post)

Fri Dec 1, 2017, 07:13 PM

Dec 2017

That was built into the budget, you can look it up. Those numbers came from the CBO in 2000, not once but twice.

Instead of $0.00 in TOTAL public debt in 2009, instead we were handed $10.8T in debt and a collapsed economy. So don't tell me what Bush left us with on an annual basis. This whole mess of spending and spending, manifested itself with much more.

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