Clinton presided over the longest period of peace-time economic expansion in American history, which included a balanced budget and a reported federal surplus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton

The numbers tell the story: the lowest yearly unemployment in a quarter century, rising profits, a budget in balance, low interest rates, even lower inflation, and declining numbers of Americans classified as poor
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98oct/clintec.htm

http://www.ppionline.org/ndol/print.cfm?contentid=252964

Thanks to the 1993 economic plan, President Clinton and Vice President Gore kept their promise to cut the deficit in half in four years and produced three back-to-back surpluses for the first time in over 50 years.Fiscal discipline has resulted in real benefits for American families by keeping interest rates low and productivity high, and by creating the conditions for the strongest economy in our nation's history.
http://www.ed.gov/PressReleases/08-2000/wh-0805.html. (Be sure to read the bullet points.)

I guess it depends on who you ask.




>According to Bill. But not according to everyone else:
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>Clinton unabashedly proclaimed the economy the best in 30 years while ignoring the previous five economic expansions which averaged a 4.4 percent annual growth. The Clinton economic recovery, by comparison, has produced an average growth rate of 2.4 percent, ranking as the worst economic recovery in more than a century.
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>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n47_v12/ai_18956021
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>But I will grant you this (and note the claim for 30 years does hold up for unemployment rates):
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>http://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/Accomplishments/eightyears-03.html
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>>>The economy is down because we have lost our manufacturing base to other countries. Thank you NAFTA, and both Bushes, as well as Bill Clinton for betraying your country economically. It also doesn't help to have the Commander-in-Chief spending like a drunken sailor on payday.
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>>>So, the above begs a question to be asked: Why?
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>>I beg to differ, but when Bill Clinton left office, the US had the best economy in 30 years.
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>>As far as to why Bush is oblivious, can't help ya there.