Originally Posted by
Mistral
Hate to say it, but ol' Dubya still spent less per year. From 2000 to 2008, the public debt went up by 4357.1 billion dollars. From 2008 to 2010, it went up by 4039.4 billion dollars, and it's only going to get worse. That also includes the talk about disengagement in Afghanistan, and the actual withdrawal of formal troops from Iraq. This also means that as of the end of 2010, the gross debt of the US is within 5% of our total GDP - between our last two presidents, we managed to almost triple our debt.