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06-16-2009, 03:42 AM
Quote: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.

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.

-Jester
You misattribute the budget balancing forces under Clinton: GOP House had a significant influence on that. Reagan had a Democratic Congress to spend along with him. Bush Junior, on the other hand, didn't have the check to his power that a Democratic congress might have provided, and, him being a baby boomer, did as one might expect: put it all on Visa.

Our third Baby Boomer president doesn't seem to understand credit cards either.

As I see it, we (the Baby Boom generatio) are Oh For Three in presidents. Too bad, but not all that surprising.

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