09/30/1981 $ 997,855,000,000.00 * (Reagan’s first year)
09/30/1992 $ 4,064,620,655,521.66 (Bush 2’s last year)

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS REAGAN AND BUSH 2 MORE THAN QUADRUPLED THEUS DEBT.

That doesn’t include Republican Bush 2’s final budget which raised the US debt still farther.

09/30/1993 $ 4,411,488,883,139.38

In 1981 GFD as a % of GDP was 32.6% (Reagan begins)
In 1993 GFD as a % of GDP was 66.2% (Bush 2 leaves)

By that measure, Republicans DOUBLED that metric as well.

Republican Debtor Party

US DEBT UNDER REPUBLICAN BUSH I:
09/30/1993 $ 4,411,488,883,139.38
09/30/1992 $ 4,064,620,655,521.66

US DEBT UNDER REPUBLICAN REAGAN:
09/29/1989 $ 2,857,430,960,187.32
09/30/1988 $ 2,602,337,712,041.16

09/30/1981 $ 997,855,000,000.00 *
09/30/1980 $ 907,701,000,000.00 *

* Rounded to Millions

Right wingers used to trip me up by lying that that Republican debt wasn’t important because the GFD as a %

of GDP was ‘historically low’.

Lying sons of

The Gross Federal Debt as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product was paid down by EVERY DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT since World War II.

All three of the last Republican Presidents RAISED the Gross Federal Debt as a Percentage of Gross Domestic Debt.

Between Republicans Reagan an Bush they just squeaked out of office before they DOUBLED that metric as well. In 1981 the GFD as a % of GDP was 32.6 %. By

the time Republicans Reagan and then Bush left office, the GFD as a % of GDP was 66.2 % in 1993.

See: [Google HTML cache of .Gov XLS of: "Table

7.1—FEDERAL DEBT AT THE END OF YEAR: 1940–2011"]

Republicans have been telling the Big Lie for decades. And Republicans tell myriad little lies to back up their Big Lie.

It’s a pain to correct right wingers perpetually lie machine but it has got to be done.

Hopefully more online fact checkers that will grow to be a perpetually truth machine to correct the record.

I definitely appreciate your efforts, “(: Tom ”

I try to be somewhat conservative in my estimations. Some may find that hard to believe…

Republican Ronald Reagan more than DOUBLED the US debt.

Between Republican Reagan and Republican Bush 1 they more than QUADRUPLED the US debt.

Republican Bush 2 managed to leave office just shy of doubling the US debt again, though the bills that Bush 2 left for the next President are still coming int, once it’s all added up, he will have substantially more than doubled the US debt.

Bush 2’s bills will also eventually include the potentially multi-TRILLIONS of dollars that will still be needed to pay off all of Bush 2’s Iraq War Lie (troops health care, replaced equipment, and the exorbitant Republican war profiteering).

Bush 2 also squeezed TRILLIONS of taxpayer dollars out the back door of the Fed, no one is quite sure how much the Fed charged to America’s credit card.

Nor does any of that account for the “plan” that the Republican Iraq War Lie would bring down the cost of oil (to $20 a barrel claimed mad Murdoch!), instead the price of gas doubled.

And that doesn’t include Bush 2’s reckless mismanagement of the economy that cratered many American’s portfolios by 40% to 60%.

Or the cost of the right wing economic delusions that managed to crush the global economy along with America’s, pushing US into the Great Republican Recession.

The economy is actually much worse than people imagine. There is still a tsunami of adjustable rate mortgages yet to be reset (“recast”) that will push even MORE families out of their unaffordable mortgage payments, which in turn means MORE houses on the burdened housing market, which will in turn push house values down even further. Manufacturing is still nosediving and unemployment is still going to be increasing for some time to come.

Add it all up and you’ve got: The Republican Great Recession.

The only thing keeping US out of a 2nd Republican Great Depression is gubmint spending, government being the “spender of last resort.”

But suddenly right wingers who slavishly accepted the absurd Voodoo economics of their innumerate cult leader Reagan, the Republican who made the absurd claim that ‘if you cut revenues, revenue goes up!’, suddenly now right wing lemmings are concerned with the US debt.

Well, considering of the last six Presidents, and the only two that paid down the debt were Democratic Presidents while ALL of the Republican President raised the debt, the data clearly supports Dems doing better on the “US debt” that right wingers have suddenly shown a renewed interest in.

Seriously, this can’t be repeated often enough.

Right wingers have been telling the BIG LIE about the Republican Debtor Party for over 30 years.

At this point Republican Math is no different than Enron Math: the error always falls in their favor.

And REPUBLICAN MATH IS ALL ERRORS.

Which is fitting because their economic theories are all fantasy.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

You don’t even know me.

No, but I’ve been listening to people saying the same type of things you do. Now. After eight years of silence during the previous administration.

And no, I can’t point to anything like that because I don’t leave comments often, and don’t often read liberal blogs. I don’t care if you *believe* me or not, I just wanted to point out that you’re making baseless, false accusations against me personally (rather than generalities against Republicans/conservatives/whatever).

No, I’ve been making baseless, false accusations against anyone who seems to think it’s okay to be a moral scold now after keeping silent over the past few years. And for some strange reason you seem to fit the profile. Sorry if you take it personally. I’m sure you were just as careful not to be offensive to liberals, so that they wouldn’t take personally all the things you seem to be supporting when you support the conservative/Republican’t/whatever ideology that has run the country into the ground over the past several years.

Why didn’t you say something like this when the lockbox was first pillaged before 9-11? Show some concern before Republican’ts doubled the debt again? After tripling it during Ray-Gun and PapaDoc Bush?

But it’s an indisputable fact that you don’t care about that.

It seems to be pretty obvious to me that your taking it personally has clouded your responses has concluded you to make some personal judgements about me and what I seem to care about.

I do seem to care about those who are suddenly coming out of the woodwork now to handcuff Obama and the Democrats after giving the Republican’ts a free pass for so very long.

The crippling amount of debt is largely the legacy of the previous administration. We’ve already been forced to take it – largely through the machinations of the Republican’ts. We’ve already seen the Republican’t solution, too – Cheney everything up and then leave the mess to the Democrats to clean up. While blaming them for it.

I do love the way you inferred that I was making false generalities about Republicans/conservatives/whatever) when I got on you for spouting Republican’t talking points within your previous comment. It was almost as good as your omniscient ability to tell what I do and do not care about. I’m sorry that you felt that you had to accuse me of being a liar when I point out the facts on the ground.

* – which is where I jumped in.

After years of voting for Bush and giving full-throated manic, enraged screeds against good candidates like Gore and Kerry whose parties and backgrounds had political track records of fiscal responsibility and after remaining SILENT and being cowards and/or cheerleading for the Iraq war, they excuse their hypocritical, unearned criticism when a Democrat gets elected president by whining, “well, everyone sucks and I criticize them all.” Piss off you coward. You don’t belong. You had your chance to suppoort fiscal responsibility and better government bu you pissed it away because you wanted tax cuts and wanted to piss off Democrats and make yourself feel better by suipporting Bush and a bunch of stupid wars. You don’t belong here. You haven’t earned the privilege of being taken seriously. You’re just another Republican-supporting fool and moral coward. I worked my ass off to stop the bushloving Republican assholes. You supported them and now say, “well, everyone sucks.”

But it’s an indisputable fact that you don’t care about that.

Tom, you explain to me why you think I was happy about it before.

Because you remained silent while the Republican’ts destroyed the economy, and only now you find that the time is ripe for criticism.

I’d love to retract my point. Could you point to a similar comment you have made, here on a liberal blog, that was critical of the Republican’ts and their record debt accumulation when they were in power?

*Everybody* in DC sucks. I constantly complain about growth of government, regardless of who does it. Republican does not mean conservative anymore. That’s why I don’t understand why anybody is happy about anything going on up there.

Record debt is record debt. Can you please explain to me how we’re going to pay off all this debt, and why you’re so happy about it?

Yes, record debt is record debt.

Can you please explain to me why you had no concerns about this whatsoever when it was the Republican’ts who were piling up this record debt, and why you’re suddenly uber concerned now that a socialistic muslimoid scary black man (who is also a Democrat, fergawdsakes) is president?

Record debt is record debt. Can you please explain to me how we’re going to pay off all this debt, and why you’re so happy about it?

Why does it seem like all that matters to many of you is that Democrats are in control, rather than what they’re actually doing? Do you just honestly not care?

The Republican base, the regal tang Dorys of the political world, suffering from perpetual short-term memory loss.

(“Dory” was the forgetful blue fish that helped the cartoon “Nemo” fish out)

Talk radio personalities, pundits, and politicians seem to be still living in a world in which all of their statements aren’t noticed and recorded.

What’s stunning is how different things used to be. You could practically say anything today, and even if it were the exact opposite of what you said yesterday, you’d have plausible deniability. For now, Rush seems to be appealing only to the ever-shrinking sliver of Americans still living in that past world.

*doesn’t hold breath*

Nice summary of the Iraq Invasion. Actually of the Cheney Administration in general. What an awful era.