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Originally Posted by bambam_jr
Debts: Has any president ever been able to actually reduce debts? Clinton at least managed to get the budget balanced.
Clinton fought against balancing the budget, he wanted to spend more.
It was a determined congress, and more importantly the luck of having an economic bubble (tech stocks) occur during his presidency that led to the balanced budget.
Picking past presidents based on what happened during their term that they had little to do with themselves, is pretty meaningless.