Reasons why voting Libertarian (or another third party) is not "wasting" your vote.

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sc94597 said:

Depending on the accounting measurements you use and the type of debt we're talking about it slightly increased to moderately increased. Clinton did at least bring the deficit to nearly zero for many years, and then Bush increased it again. 

http://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/the-budget-and-deficit-under-clinton/

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/craigsteiner/2011/08/22/the_clinton_surplus_myth

Fiscal Year	End Date	Claimed Surplus	Public Debt	Intra-gov Holdings	Total National Debt
FY1997	09/30/1997		$3.789667T	$1.623478T	$5.413146T
FY1998	09/30/1998	$69.2B	$3.733864T  $55.8B	$1.792328T  $168.9B	$5.526193T  $113B
FY1999	09/30/1999	$122.7B	$3.636104T  $97.8B	$2.020166T  $227.8B	$5.656270T $130.1B
FY2000	09/29/2000	$230.0B	$3.405303T  $230.8B	$2.268874T  $248.7B	$5.674178T  $17.9B
FY2001	09/28/2001		$3.339310T  $66.0B	$2.468153T  $199.3B	$5.807463T  $133.3B

edit: 
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/sep/23/bill-clinton/bill-clinton-says-his-administration-paid-down-deb/
This also explains it well. 

Thank you for this information!  I wasn't aware that the national debt didn't decrease by every measure in the late Clinton years.  Although reducing public debt is probably the more important measure, since then the gov't only has to pay back itself (isn't losing money to other entities), I [edit:  admit that it can be useful to use] the other number, by which measure the debt increased even in that period.