force lawmakers to balance the budget each year as is required in his state. but for now it seems as if the national debt is snowballing. look at this. when president clinton left office in 2001 the debt was $5.66 trillion. it doubled during president s bush s administration to 10.7 trillion and nearly doubled again to almost $20 trillion during president barack obama s administration, $8 trillion was added during the trump administration to reach more than $27 trillion. consider this, ben, if we needed to pay off the near $30 trillion in debt that we have right now, u.s. debt clock.org said each taxpayer would owe $232,240. ben. benjamin: such a big figure it is hard to imagine them. clocking up that quickly is something else. lydia, thank you.
plagarism. he was never a moderate. right now, he s in legacy mode. he met with liberal historians, he wants to be bigger than fdr. how about you pay attention to what s going on in this country, joe. how about you pay attention to what your policies are doing to this country. we have inflation shooting through the roof. as i was watching your show earlier, $3.5 trillion in human infrastructure. human infrastructure. we call that socialism and then with 1 phone 2 trillion in 1.2 trillion in infrastructure. they want to spend $10.7 trillion on top of the 2 trillion they already spent and 2.3 trillion before that. they re going to destroy this economic system for our kids and our grandkids. they re destroying our classrooms with the damn executive orders and the nea and aft. they re destroying the border. we know why they re doing its.
plagarism. he was never a moderate. right now, he s in legacy mode. he met with liberal historians, he wants to be bigger than fdr. how about you pay attention to what s going on in this country, joe. how about you pay attention to what your policies are doing to this country. we have inflation shooting through the roof. as i was watching your show earlier, $3.5 trillion in human infrastructure. human infrastructure. we call that socialism and then with 1 phone 2 trillion in 1.2 trillion in infrastructure. they want to spend $10.7 trillion on top of the 2 trillion they already spent and 2.3 trillion before that. they re going to destroy this economic system for our kids and our grandkids. they re destroying our classrooms with the damn executive orders and the nea and aft. they re destroying the border. we know why they re doing its.
$20.7 trillion. we re now spending roughly $900 billion per year giving out 80 different welfare programs. 100 million people get something. they average $9,000 a year in cash value per person, per year in this war on poverty. now to answer your question. did we in fact make any real progress? here s the simple answer. we have not made that much progress in reducing the poverty rate. 15% of americans are still in poverty. it is roughly the same level as it was back in 1964. it did help feed hungry people, treat sick people and it did raise the standard of living for many, many poor people. however the proportion of people still living in poverty, pretty much the same as it was back in 1964, martha. martha: let s talk a little bit about what president obama wants to do. it is not a large-scale program as we talked about yesterday. well he is extending the war
call. to switch, and you could save hundreds. liberty mutual insurance responsibility. what s your policy? neil: it is amazing with the exception of you referring to the debt clock how few of your colleagues speaking down there do. our country is on a road towards bankruptcy. we had $16 trillion debt news today. no one s mentioned it. no one. why not? first of all because it s not news. i ve not heard anything about the debt. not a word. nothing. i actually have. where? the country s absolutely deepener debt. you look back at inauguration day it was $10.7 trillion. today $16 trillion of debt under this president. it s not a priority on my list. i m not saying that. you said you re not going to mention the debt.