Here is a listing of debt to GPD on an annual basis, since 1929.

Bill Clinton slowed the ratio of indebtedness,  but,  at no time,  did he balance the budget  ---  regardless of Gingrich's comments to the contrary. 



End of Fiscal Year

 Debt (as of 9/30, in  billions) Debt/  GDP  RatioMajor Events by Presidential Term
1929$1716%Market crash. Depression reduced tax receipts so Hoover raised taxes which worsened depression. Smoot-Hawley tariffs reduced trade.
1930$1618%
1931$1722%
1932$1933%
1933$2339%
1934$2740%FDR's New Deal increased both GDP and debt.
1935$2939%
1936$3440%
1937$3639%
1938$3743%FDR cut spending to balance budget. Depression returned. He increased debt and GDP to prepare for WW2. Depression ended.
1939$4043%
1940$5150%
1941$5845%
1942$7948%US entered WWII. Increased debt and GDP. WW2 end created recession.
1943$14370%
1944$20491%
1945$260114%
1946$271119%Truman's 1st term budgets. Recession as economy adjusted to peacetime.
1947$257104%
1948$25292%
1949$25393%
1950$25789%Truman's 2nd term. Korean War (1950-1953) boosted growth and debt, but created recession when it ended. 
1951$25574%
1952$25972%
1953$26668%
1954$27170%Eisenhower's budgets. Recession. Fed raised rates. Worsened recession.
1955$27465%
1956$27361%
1957$27157%
1958$27658%Eisenhower's 2nd term. Recession.
1959$28554%
1960$28653%
1961$28952%
1962$29849%JFK budgets. Cuban Missile Crisis. U.S. aided Vietnam coup.
1963$30648%
1964$31246%
1965$31743%LBJ's budgets. War on Poverty. Vietnam War. Fed raised rates.
1966$32040%
1967$32638%
1968$34837%
1969$35435%
1970$37135%Recession. Wage-price controls. OPEC oil embargo. Nixon ended gold standard. Fed doubled interest rates. Vietnam War ended. 
1971$39834%
1972$42734%
1973$45832%
1974$47531%Stagflation. Watergate. 
1975$53332%Ford budgets.
1976*$62033%
1977$69933%
1978$77232%Carter budgets.
Volcker raised rate to 20%. Iran oil embargo. Recession.
1979$82731%
1980$90832%
1981$99831%
1982$1,14234%Reagan budgets from 1st term. Recession.
1983$1,37737%
1984$1,57238%
1985$1,82341%
1986$2,12546%Reagan lowered taxes. S&L Crisis.
1987$2,34048%
1988$2,60249%
1989$2,85750%
1990$3,23353%Bush 41 budgets. Desert Storm. Recession. Debt growth slowed. 
1991$3,66558%
1992$4,06561%
1993$4,41163%
1994$4,69363%Clinton budgets.
Budget Act reduced deficit spending.
1995$4,97464%
1996$5,22564%
1997$5,41362%
1998$5,52660%Last Clinton budgets. 9/11 attacks. Recession. Bush added $22.9 billion to FY01 budget for War on Terror.
1999$5,65658%
2000$5,67454%
2001$5,80754%
2002$6,22856%First George W. Bush budgets. War on Terror cost $409.2 billion. Bank bailout cost $350 billion. Bush tax cuts
2003$6,78358%
2004$7,37959%
2005$7,93360%
2006$8,50761%War cost $752.2 billion.
Katrina cost $24.7 billion. ARRA added $241.9 billion to FY09 budget.

Also,  the American Reinvestment Act added another 800 billion to our debt and failed to spend and significant money on infrastructure.  ~  editor
2007$9,00861%
2008$10,02567%
2009$11,910 ($11,000 on Mar 16 and $12,000 on Nov 16.83%
2010$13,562 ($13,000 on Jun 1 and $14,000 on Dec 31.90%Obama Stimulus Act cost $400 billion.This funding bill is not to be confused with the Reinvestment Act.

Payroll tax holiday ended. War cost $512.6 billion. Great Recession and tax cuts reduced revenue.

Remember:  Obama promised 4% GDP by the end of 2010 and labeled the summer of 2010, "The summer of recovery."  
2011$14,790 ($15,000 on Nov 15)95%
2012$16,066 ($16,000 on Aug 31)99%
2013$16,738  ($17,000 on Oct 17)100%
2014$17,824  ($18,000 on Dec 15)102%War cost $309 billion. QE ended. Strong dollar hurt exports.

Note: At no time during the Obama years did the Federal Goverment approve and work off an actual budget  . . .  that's eight years without a budgent  . . . .  only CR accommodations year after year after year.  ~ editor  
2015$18,151101%
2016$19,573 ($19,000 on Jan 29)105%
2017$20,245  ($20,000 on Sept. 8, 2017.)104%Congress raised debt ceiling.
2018$21,478 (est.)107%Trump tax cuts and spending above sequestration.
2019$22,703 (est.)108%
2020$23,901 (est.)108%
2021$25,020 (est.)108%

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