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    JH> Second, based on what they posted here over the years,   
    JH> they've not had an original thought worth discussing.  They   
    JH> have never done anything but spew what the Democrat party   
    JH> puts out as talking points.   
      
    ...   
      
    This was original material, and you couldn't answer this:   
      
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    According to the Federal Budget History files, 2010: At the end   
    of WW2 the debt load was almost 122% of GDP. It went down under   
    every president, war and peace, recession or prosperity, liberal   
    or conservative, republican or democrat, until Reagan. When   
    Reagan took office it was around 33%.   
      
    Under Reagan it started back up, under Clinton it started back   
    down again. Under Bush II it went back into climb mode.   
      
    In 1981, 32.6%, in 1989, 53.1%, in 1993, 66.2%, in 2001 57.4%,   
    in 2009 90.4%.   
      
    So, Obama was handed an economy that was at risk of another   
    depression, and a debt load that is headed for crushing.   
      
    If the country went into depression the GDP could drop as much   
    as 50%. The debt would not drop, so the debt load would become   
    horrendous. 90% jumps to 180%. Higher than this country has ever   
    seen. If the GDP dropped 25% that still pushes up the debt load   
    to around 130%. That is a crushing debt. And that is why we   
    might well not be able to get out of another depression.   
      
    When Obama took office he was facing a national debt of about   
    $12 trill. That debt had built up in the 232 years before his   
    inauguration. Yet almost 80% of that debt had built up under 3   
    presidents, Reagan, Bush I and Bush II.   
      
    Of the 10% built up under Clinton almost all of it was in his   
    first term, when he was fighting to bring the Reagan/Bush   
    debacle under control. In his second term he gave this country   
    the first balanced budget it had seen in 29 years, and the   
    second longest string of balanced budgets of the 20th century.   
    At which time it appeared he stopped the growth of the debt.   
    However, the republicans had other plans.   
    (Note:The longest string was the 1920s)   
      
    All other presidents combined produced about 10% of the total   
    debt.   
      
    80% of the national debt Obama inherited produced under the last   
    three republican presidents. And 100% of the growth in the post   
    WWII debt load.   
      
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   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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