According to the Andrew Jackson Society, when Jackson left office was the ONLY time the Gummint was debt free.
"No American should have to live under the oppression of a sprawling oversized central government; or suffer the loss of personal autonomy and liberties to perfunctory bureaucrats; or endure the invasion of privacy by officious functionaries; or struggle through a life trying to stay ahead of inflation; or endure the nightmare of over regulation and criminalization; or tolerate mass corruption and fraud by self serving elected officials; or to grind out a living only to be ravaged by labor-wage taxes while Federal Reserve Bankers get rich off baseless currency; or die fighting in some needless war"--- Andrew Jackson
For all you ET'ers who plan to vote for RepubliClowns or DemoCraps this Novemember, let's see ANY of your candidates hold a candle to Andrew Jackson's ideals of government..