Immigration reform would add $1.5 trillion to the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) over 10 years, so.....?

A "Budget Deficit/Surplus" is different from the "National Debt". He had a 5 trillion dollar National Debt, but a $200 billion dollar Budget Surplus. The Budget is how much we spend per year over what we take in from taxes.

National debt is the total amount the nation owes (the deficits added together). In other words, Clinton was spending less per year than we were taking in with tax revenues. Clinton achieved this by cutting unnecessary military spending (closing bases we didn't need, shrinking its size), and combined it with a higher tax rate (than Bush's).

That being said said, the nation had a National Debt for a few decades before Clinton took office, which had exploded under Ronald Reagan's massive military spending, and Clinton couldn't have possibly paid it off in 8 years. See here for better reference: http://blogs.venturacountystar.com/vcs/g... EDIT: You're right - my apologies. I deleted that sentence.

I thought you were another Con trying to make a baseless attack against Clinton without sufficient knowledge/information. A lot of Cons behave that way here.

Ok one more time..... There was a BUDGET SURPLUS that if spending was left the same was projected to pay off the NATIONAL DEBT by 2015. If your type doesn't understand simple terms in business, maybe you have no business blaming Obama for a bad economy when it is the result of the policies you have supported for 30 years. A BUDGET and DEBT are two different things and YES you can have BOTH at the SAME time.

A BUDGET = the amount of money you regularly spend over a designated period of time. DEBT = amount you owe DEBT does not grow unless your BUDGET exceeds your REVENUE I REVENUE exceeds you BUDGET, DEBT is reduced. That Budget changed almost immediately for war, oil subsidies, and 1% to homeland security.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.