The economy is where it is because Dubbya Bush spent the surplus budget from Clinton's administration like a little girl at a shopping mall. Wars typically boost an economy, but Bush managed to find a way to have a war and put the entire country in serious debt. Obama deserves another four years to continue to try to get us out of this mess. Another Republican president would essentially ruin us.
obviously what bush did with that small surplus was absurd and pathetic, but on the largest scale it wasn't as significant as many think. We were still in a massive amount of debt due to reagan, people were still barely paying taxes, and we were losing historically important businesses (manufacturing).
Clinton trimming as much of the debt as he did was impressive and good, but he didn't ensure long term debt cutting because we weren't seeing any comebacks in important job sectors. Combine that with the fact that he didn't really start ending all these tax loopholes and ya...it was more of a blip on the radar and not a long term thing to go by.
It is ironic though that clinton was pretty much more fiscally conservative than any president post ww2 and yet republicans today say hes the reason for this mess.
The US mess of today started 35ish years ago. That was the root of the problem. People who blame clinton of the 90s or bush of the 00s are semi shortsighted and just want to think their generations were the most significant. Bush sucked, and Clinton was only slightly better (and Obama is a wimp), but the problem is/was nixon and reagan.
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