| Game_boy said: Now remembering this debt crisis is somewhat recent and that Clinton had a government surplus, I would argue the net value of each person has dropped severely: wages a little up; debt massively up. |
"net value of each person"? Did you just invent that term?
This "debt crisis"* is somewhat recent??
Which specific years was there a balanced budget during the Clinton administration? Was it for the entire eight years? Or was it only after a Republican Congress was swept into power and enacted The Fiscal Responsibility Act in early 1996 as part of their Contract with America?
And are you just going to ignore all external events and just link everything to the US President (not even the legislature as shown above)? The dot com boom and burst bubble? The Asian financial crisis? 9/11? And of course the Chairman of the Federal Reserve has no control over the US economy, right?
*("debt crisis" is in quotes because that's not the unnecessarily alarmist term I would use. Plus there is not even agreement on whether debt is a bad thing: Some argue a surplus could result in a deflationary recession as the money supply contracts. See also "Learning to Love Debt". I don't fully agree with all of it, but it's another perspective...)
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