In eight years, Bill Clinton only increased the budget from 1.41 trillion to 1.86 trillion, a 32.2% increase which is notably not adjusted for inflation. As a percentage of GDP the budget fell from 21.4% to 18.5%. Under eight years of Bush the budget increased from 1.86 trillion to 3.11 trillion, an uncanny 66.8% increase.

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Nathan Arizona, Sr.: What are you after?

Leonard Smalls: I’ll give you an idea. As a pup, I myself fetched $30,000 on the black market.
And that was in 1954 dollars.