Remember.... Bush inherited a 200 billion dollar surplus....

[trumad]

and then proceeded to turn it into a half trillion dollar deficit...That's a 700 billion dollar turnaround in only 3 short years.

That should be a major, major talking point by the Dems and it should be something that Moron America can pretty much understand!

[Homer12]

1. Another Point: For People who don't believe that there was a Surplus

Bushco still proceeded to create a 700 billion dollar deficet.

[Bandit]

2. It is a hell of a lot more than that

It has been three straight years of three to four hundred billion dollar deficits. They add up to well over a Trillion which has increased our Debt to seven trillion dollars. It was slightly over five trillion (and going down) when Clinton left office.

[mumon]

3. True.

The "surplus" was only there because Social Security balanced the books- but we were headed in the right direction under Clinton.

Under Bush, we're being compared by the American Enterprise Institute favorably with, uh... Nigeria...

Even Brazil's got a better managed economy today than ours.