Bill Clinton was president for 13 months of the decade and left office with a Treasury surplus. George W. Bush was president for the next eight years, a time of recessions, wars, and slow economic collapse. He presided over the quickest economic meltdown in history, the most precipitous jump in national debt, the worst terrorist attack on American soil, the worst natural disaster, and the sanctioning of torture.
Bill Clinton was president for 13 months of the decade and left office with a Treasury surplus. George W. Bush was president for the next eight years, a time of recessions, wars, and slow economic collapse. He presided over the quickest economic meltdown in history, the most precipitous jump in national debt, the worst terrorist attack on American soil, the worst natural disaster, and the sanctioning of torture.