@oralloy,
Illustrating how the GDP juicing worked
Bill Clinton was smart enough to figure out how to make the numbers look better, and how to take credit for that, but that did not mean that the economy was better, that we were. The tech bubble popping, Wall Street turning into a casino, terrorists setting up in failed states after Clinton aggressively cut defense spending all ended up to be very costly. The depression that we will almost certainly soon see has a significant amount of its legacy in Bill Clinton's irresponsible political moves.