Uh...Tom
Bill Clinton campaigned on balancing the federal budget and eliminating the deficit. He effectively fixed the Reagan-Bush era deficits. Reagan's strategy was essentially "don't worry, it'll fix itself." Well, guess what? It didn't. Bill Clinton actually trimmed the federal workforce to pre-Kennedy era levels. And since the Republicans have held both the White House and Congress, the growth in federal spending has increased at its highest rate in forty years.