Need help. What is the amount of the national debt and what

[acmavm]

was it when Clinton left office? How do I find out?

I argue with a Rush Limbaugh loving republican on the bus every morning and he's trying to lay the (he says 10 trillion dollar) national debt on Clinton. We argue about the surplus in the Treasury and Social Security all the time, but I've got him whipped on that one. But this morning it's the national debt.

And I must that Rush Limbaugh for being such an arrogant drug addled moron. I had a lot of fun on the ride this morning.

[MADem]

1. That former freedom fries Republican congressman

who is now against the war from South? Carolina has a debt counter on his website...the thing spins like a top...

Try google.

[IndependentVoice]

4. Eerie that its at its lowest when Nixon was in charge

[benburch]

5. Nixon cut many things to keep Vietnams expenses from making debt.

He was a bastard, but he was a fiscally conservative bastard.

This is why the Apollo moon program ended when it did, and why we don't have a moon base now.

[benburch]

2. Here you go!

http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

http://zfacts.com.nyud.net:8090/metaPage/lib/National-Debt-GDP.gif

[benburch]

3. And...

http://zfacts.com/p/55.html

http://zfacts.com.nyud.net:8090/metaPage/lib/brillig-nom-national-debt.gif

http://zfacts.com.nyud.net:8090/metaPage/lib/brillig-deflate-national-debt.gif

[acmavm]

7. Thank you, thank you. I love have my 'ducks' in a row for

the morning skirmish.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Call it $8.4 trillion. It was $5.6 trillion when Bush took office.

Great facts are here: http://zfacts.com/p/480.html

And I like this from the US Treasury:

The federal debt has increased 54 percent since President Bush took office, from approximately $5.6 trillion at the end of 2000 to an estimated $8.6 trillion at the end of 2006. By 2011, the President’s budget would increase the public debt to $11.8 trillion. (U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of Public Debt)

[acmavm]

8. Thanks all of you!!