Bill Clinton is said to go down in history as one of the USA's most productive president...?

Question

I say it is true as the economic prosperity was unbelievable. Was there any other super successful presidency?

Answer 1

So unbelieveable because it didn't exist... Clintons taxes took more of my income than Bush's...

Economic prosperity under Clinton?
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Clinton took away many of our rights, including many 2nd Amendment related, he is one of the worst Presidents ever...

Answer 2

Yes, Reagan. That's the guy that did such a good job that Bill Clinton is receiving praise for Reagan's economic policies. Seriously, raising the minimum wage and paying off the national debt have only had negative effects on the economy...unless done under the right circumstances of low unemployment, etc. Raising the minimum wage raises unemployment, yet Clinton is touted as lowering it. It was all caused by Reagan's long-term employment (beefing up the military) and education plans as well as fueling technology innovation.

Answer 3

It amazes me how President Clinton takes credit for the economic prosperity of the 90's.

First of all, he was a beneficiary of a good economy. It wasn't him that created it. If that was the case, the President Bush II would be the greatest president in history!

Secondly, it was a Republican controlled Congress that balanced the budget when they took control in 1992. But of course, Clinton takes credit for that too.

Lastly, Clinton disgraced the office if the President in front of the whole world. The only successful thing about the Clinton presidency was that he wasn't impeached.

Answer 4

Maybe. Statistically, Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we ever had. He helped more corporations become bigger corporations through special programs, targeted regulations (written by corporate lobbyists), and by not continuing the prosecution of the Iran/Contra scam, which would have led to more Republican dirty laundry than people even WANT to imagine.
Economic policies of free trade, etc, also increased the power of corporations to deny people wages, send our infrastructure overseas, outsource our up-and-coming middle class wages through strong dollar policies. The problem with stong dollar policies is that they then lead to weak dollars when the countries we outsourced to become economically competitive with us without the regulations and overhead that made our factories safer and cleaner than they were before worker unions.
The continuous line of presidents who worked toward cheap oil (Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush) has created an overheated economic system which is on the verge of collapse, since the entire system is reliant on the perception of growth for investment, which is impossible as long as it is based on cheap oil.
American farming can only produce so much food without oil and natural gas for fuel and fertilizers, no matter how many computer jobs we create, or how many taxes we cut.

Answer 5

It depends on how you define success, Ronald Reagan was almost single handedly responsible for the fall of communism in the former soviet union and the fall of the Berlin wall. We also saw record inflation and national debt during his terms in office. Every president has good and band points. At least Reagan never got a BJ from a 20 something intern in the oval office.

Answer 6

Clinton just created an illusion of prosperity. He balanced the budget by cutting critical funding to states. One consequence of this is that local health care was hit hard and local hospitals closed in record numbers. This is one reason the economy was hit so hard by 9-11, local municipalities just didn't have the reserve.

Answer 7

I think George Washington was very successful. He was the first president under the Constitution and he didn't fail. That's an accomplishment if you ask me ... which you did! LOL! I also think that Clinton was a successful president, but he was defidently not the most productive in my opinion.

Answer 8

Posterity will have the last word and will reserve judgment for some time. I say he was a very good president with self control issues. Other super successful presidencies: Lincoln, Washington, FDR?

Answer 9

He wasn't. That honor would circulate to Wilson or FDR. somebody mentioned Hoover, and he wasn't something super, yet my God..FDR presided over the melancholy till dying. And admitted to persevering with Hoover regulations. LBJ become surprisingly undesirable too. i'd nevertheless would desire to evaluate it Wilson or probably FDR. the only element Clinton did that could placed him as a contender...if that's what you're getting at, is largely letting 9/11 ensue. He had diverse opportunities to be conscious of Bin weighted down, yet refused to accomplish that. whilst that airplane crashed interior the White domicile backyard, human beings joked it become his intelligence chief attempting to get an objective audience with him. His former consultant **** Morris, says he observed eye to eye with Clinton on each project yet one...terrorism. He evidently mentioned Clinton did no longer take it heavily. Clinton's strikes have been stated by potential of Osama himself. Or loss of action, somewhat. Clinton reported himself he permit Bin weighted down slip by way of his palms, even though it become extra like a minimum of two times, according to threat thrice. so because it rather is surprisingly undesirable. yet I nevertheless won't be able to place him as worst, actual. A Fascist like Wilson(and FDR supported lots of his atrocious regulations) is a extra useful candidate, by potential of miiiiiiiiles.

Answer 10

Clinton actually tried to make real world solutions to real world problems. Reagan was an aweful president, he created the deficit that clinton fixed and Bush restarted