I've always thought it comical when people make statements about Clinton having left a treasury surplus (which was really only numbers on a page which bore no resemblance to anything existent in the reality of the financial world) and that GWB then shredded that "surplus" and also spent us into financial oblivion. The comedy is that these folks always fail to mention how the financial disasters that accompanied the attacks on 9-11 played a huge part in that.

ANYONE in business in the US knows how heavily the economy was impacted after 9-11 and in truth that the economy has never fully recovered since then, but they always neglect to mention this all too obvious fact when making such statements