As Republicans liked to point out during the Clinton years, it hasn't been that low since Pearl Harbor.
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That is what happened in the U.S., for example, after Word War II, and again during the Clinton years.
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As you can see, there actually was progress during the Clinton years, and significant progress during the Reagan years.
The ratio escalated quite rapidly during the Clinton years, despite a slow-down in the rate of health spending during his administration.
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The creation of a budget surplus was the result of a long struggle between the White House and Congress that began during the Clinton years.
Indeed John Boehner has said he is not going the way of Newt Gingrich in his Contract With America shutdown during the Clinton years in the 1990s.
American military capability has slipped perilously during the Clinton years.
Running for president in 2000, Gore largely based his platform on the perceived success of White House policies during the Clinton years, but with additional emphasis on environmental issues.
During the Clinton years, spending was under control.
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People raising Democratic funds this year say that wealthy donors regularly complain of getting poorer treatment than they did during the Clinton years, when the President and Terry McAuliffe, his campaign-finance chairperson, formed a tireless tag team.
There is no alternative to economic growth, and not just economic growth because even during the Clinton years, when we had a lot of it, we left behind some 35 million Americans who stayed below the poverty line.
In order to staff the National Security Council, it was therefore compelled to rely heavily upon detailees from the State Department and CIA, organizations riddled with career civil servants whose left-of-center leanings were greatly exacerbated by hiring and promotion practices during the Clinton years.
The most permanent tax reform we can undertake, though, is to end the income tax and abolish the IRS. We could remove the entire personal income tax-funded portion of the budget and the federal government would still receive roughly the same revenues that it did during the Clinton years.
In contrast, during the Reagan and Clinton years, the gold value of the dollar increased, by 44% and 23% respectively.
Interestingly, EIA reports U.S. emissions rose more than 15% during the eight years of the Clinton-Gore administration but have declined since.
While there is no question that the armed forces have been using the equipment they had before President George W. Bush came to office, the truth is that very little of it was acquired during the eight years of the Clinton presidency.
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During the first two years of the Clinton presidency, the budget deficit fell from 4.75% of GDP to 2.9% of GDP, an extraordinary accomplishment that had seemed all but politically impossible.
There is only the smallest chance that the security bill will become law - either during the waning days of the Clinton administration or the headstrong years of his successor, whoever that will be.
Real wages and benefits have increased 7.5% under President Bush compared to 6% under President Bill Clinton during the first six years of their respective presidencies.
In comparison, all three members of Mr Mankiw's CEA, and the one chaired by Janet Yellen during Bill Clinton's later years in office, are on the list.
During its eight years in office, the Clinton team greatly exacerbated this trend.
During the epic Wanniski epoch including the good growth years of Reagan and of Clinton tax policy was fought out, vividly, in the public and political sphere.
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The American State Department announced during Mrs Clinton's tour that she was sending the most senior American delegation for several years to Syria.
The investment in Asia during Mr Obama's first term and the work done by Ms Clinton over the last four years has bolstered American credibility and influence in Asia and set the stage for Mr Kerry to begin sketching out with allies in the region "what we want to achieve over the next four years".
Incredibly, the fact that this might still be an "important" objective of the old Soviet military-industrial apparatus is as absent from the thinking of senior Clinton Administration policy-makers as it was from their predecessors' during the Bush-Gorbachev years.
As Mr Clinton loves to point out, welfare rolls have fallen fast during the past four years--by more than 2.5m between January 1993 and November 1996.
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