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Clinton presided over the longest period of peace-time economic expansion in American history, which included a balanced budget and a federal surplus. The Congressional Budget Office reported a surplus of $236B in 2000, the last full year of Clinton's presidency. Clinton desperately wanted to pass a healthcare reform law, but with a Republican Congress stacked against him he was unable to move his agendas. Some believe that the economic successes of the nineties were due to Clinton's presidency, others believe it was the trailing result of Reagan's fiscal policies. Clinton holds a paper with the headline: FAILURE. What future headline might this represent?

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You'll be pleased to know that JFK is on "team good" because apparently in this world he was a rightwing deficit hawk, but GWB is on "team evil" because of the bailouts and increase in the deficit. Also, Obama keeps walking on the constitution. They really should keep that thing in a glass case, or somewhere safer.

Abraham Lincoln

16th President, 1861-1865
National Debt: $2,680,647,869.74 billion

Lincoln is a popular president for having preserved the Union during the Civil War and abolished slavery and continued democratic elections even during the war. But during the Civil War, Lincoln appropriated powers no previous President had wielded: he suspended the writ of habeas corpus, spent money before Congress appropriated it, and imprisoned between 15,000 and 18,000 suspected Confederate sympathizers without trial. Lincoln also signed the Revenue Act of 1861 creating the first U.S. income tax and he also created a system of national banks through the National Banking Acts of 1863, 1864 and 1865. Lincoln also allowed for elections during the war and was vehemently opposed to foreign banking investors. I believe he would be appalled by our current debt and entitlement fiasco.

AdmiralKird wrote:

Abraham Lincoln

16th President, 1861-1865
National Debt: $2,680,647,869.74 billion

Lincoln is a popular president for having preserved the Union during the Civil War and abolished slavery and continued democratic elections even during the war. But during the Civil War, Lincoln appropriated powers no previous President had wielded: he suspended the writ of habeas corpus, spent money before Congress appropriated it, and imprisoned between 15,000 and 18,000 suspected Confederate sympathizers without trial. Lincoln also signed the Revenue Act of 1861 creating the first U.S. income tax and he also created a system of national banks through the National Banking Acts of 1863, 1864 and 1865. Lincoln also allowed for elections during the war and was vehemently opposed to foreign banking investors. I believe he would be appalled by our current debt and entitlement fiasco.

So he claps for the Constitution? It must be because the Constitution is very national debt/anti-welfare heavy and doesn't speak much about individual rights.