The Economy

[kandrathe]

But they do. The closest the budgets have ever come in the US to being balanced were under Carter and Clinton. The "conservatives", Reagan and Bush, have been the most wastrel administrations around.

The counter argument being that in order to do so, Carter and later Clinton gutted the one service the nation cannot do without, national defense. Reagan, and Bush felt compelled to spend effort to revitalize our national defense. Reagan due to his desire to end the Cold War, and Bush because of that World Trade Center incident.

Balancing budgets is not easy work. But by and large, it's been work done by "spendthrift" Democrats, and not "conservative" Republicans. Just look at the tables you linked; the correlation is obvious.

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No seriously. :lol:

I don't mean a balanced budget. I mean pay down the debt. You know, so that we don't spend 15% of tax revenues on debt service. I would also note that as of Clinton/Bush, there are no Democrats and Republicans, only self serving demagogues and publicans.