(06-21-2012, 04:51 AM)kandrathe Wrote: The graph really shows that the largest correlation to increasing spending (since 1980) is having a Democratic house of representatives.
No. The best correlation to increased spending is clearly, obviously, having a Republican president. Are we forgetting that correlation is not causation?
Also, you really need to stop truncating your time periods in this way. Very convenient that 1980 is your starting point, the moment after Democrats had just consistently presided over 25 years of the largest real debt reduction in US history - until a rather famous Republican president, backed by the Senate for the first time in ages, declared "morning in America."
-Jester