US Presidential administration budgets

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Contents 1 About 1.1 Future 2 Links 2.1 Reference 2.2 To Be Filed

[edit] About

This article relates to comparisons of budgetary spending and policy across the different United States Presidential administrations.

[edit] Future

This should probably be moved to something like US/gov/spending/by party. --Woozle 13:47, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Links

[edit] Reference

• Historical Debt Outstanding – Annual: year-by-year listings of the US public debt, going back to 1791
  • earlier incarnation of that information

[edit] To Be Filed

• Just For the Record by Dwight Meredith: multiple comparisons across Kennedy/Johnson, Nixon/Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, and Clinton administrations. Summary (all figures are in 1996 dollars):
  • Republican presidents increased the national debt by $3.8 trillion, with an average annual deficit of $190 billion.
  • Democratic presidents increased the national debt by $719.5 billion, with an average annual deficit of $36 billion.
• The Latest Data on Bush's Spendthrift Ways: Percentage Changes in Real Discretionary Spending for LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush
• How to Withstand the Coming Bush Economic Crisis: analysis of expected effects on the economy, written for portfolio investors
• President Reagan, Champion Budget-Cutter by Veronique de Rugy of the American Enterprise Institute