Jan 8, 2013 ... At the Democratic National Convention, Bill Clinton famously opined that ' arithmetic' was the magic trick that enabled him to be the last President to provide  a budget surplus. In 2001, the CBO projected that the total Clinton surplus of  about $280 billion would balloon to $5.9 trillion worth of cumulative ...
Nov 9, 2011 ... George Voinovich, the former GOP senator from Ohio, likens his party's new  guard to arsonists whose attitude is: "We're going to get what we want or the ....  The month after Bush took office, the president's then-budget director, Mitch  Daniels, suggested in an internal memo that $5.6 trillion was likely too ...
Oct 17, 2013 ... The first point to understand is that the current $16.7 trillion federal debt is about  $11 trillion more than it was when George W. Bush took office. ... President  Clinton left office in January 2001 with the federal budget in the black by $236  billion and with a projected 10-year budget surplus of $5.6 trillion.
According to the Wasington Post, the bill provides a $1.5 trillion tax cut, with  substantial benefits for the rich and lowering the tax rate for corporations to 20%  from its current 35% ... Plus it would lower the capital-gains tax by 3.8% and  repeal the inheritance tax, which, critics say helps the president's family and rich  friends.
Dec 2, 2015 ... Later that day, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said she sent a letter to the  U.S. attorney general asking the Department of Justice's Civil Rights .... The key  thing to remember is that the killing of McDonald took place in October 2014, and  the video was in the hands of prosecutors around the same ...
We went from a $5.6 trillion surplus that George Bush inherited to over ... $11-plus trillion debt when George Bush left office.