Which President of the United States increased the debt the most since 1980?

[chaykapwr]

Quote from HomelyWizzard:

Still you conservatives idolize Reagan and demonize Obama. You cannot get a sane, electable GOP candidate against him thou. What a pathetic bunch of losers.....Staphagos you do what you will with your ignore list, I won't lose any sleep over it.....

what is with "you conservatives"?

 

[Brass]

Quote from GTS:

Clue alert #2 - Presidents don't spend money, congress does - you need to look at which party controlled congress during each of those times as well...

"President May Sign or Veto Any or All of the Appropriations Bills
As spelled out in the Constitution, the President has ten days in which to decide: (1) to sign the bill, thereby making it law; (2) to veto the bill, thereby sending it back to Congress and requiring much of the process to begin again with respect the programs covered by that bill; or (3) to allow the bill to become law without his signature, thereby making it law but doing so without his express approval."

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/federalbudgetprocess/a/budget_page4.htm

 

[Brass]

Quote from GTS:

% increase in the public debt?!?

Wouldn't the (inflation adjusted) actual dollar increase in debt be more interesting? Or per capital increase in debt, again in dollars?

Nah, those wouldn't produce the skew that the OP is after...

Go ahead, produce the chart as it should be. I'll wait.

 

[jem]

why are we looking at percents?
we also know that it is the democratic congress which really correlates to the massive spending sprees. But, the neocons were big spending sobs too.

 

[GTS]

Quote from Brass:

"President May Sign or Veto Any or All of the Appropriations Bills
As spelled out in the Constitution, the President has ten days in which to decide: (1) to sign the bill, thereby making it law; (2) to veto the bill, thereby sending it back to Congress and requiring much of the process to begin again with respect the programs covered by that bill; or (3) to allow the bill to become law without his signature, thereby making it law but doing so without his express approval."

Yep, the president can veto what the congress produces and thereby shut the gov't down - the president can't pass a budget, he can take or leave what congress passes. Big difference.

 

[GTS]

Quote from Brass:

Go ahead, produce the chart as it should be. I'll wait.

No need to wait - do it yourself if you need to prove something to yourself.

 

[Random.Capital]

Quote from GTS:

% increase in the public debt?!?

Wouldn't the (inflation adjusted) actual dollar increase in debt be more interesting?

%increase automatically accounts for virtually all inflation effects.

 

[Brass]

Quote from GTS:

No need to wait - do it yourself if you need to prove something to yourself.

No. I find the one presented quite sufficient. But thanks.

 

[GTS]

Quote from Random.Capital:

%increase automatically accounts for virtually all inflation effects.

It also disguises the huge amount of debt added the current administration by looking at it in comparison to the cumulative total of all previous administrations rather than comparing each administration separately.

 

[Random.Capital]

Quote from GTS:

It also disguises the huge amount of debt added the current administration by looking at it in comparison to the cumulative total of all previous administrations rather than comparing each administration separately.

It also does the same for the previous administration.

And the administration before that.

And the administration before that.

And the administration before that.

And the administration before that.

Same standard for everyone, yet a distinct pattern emerges none the less.