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Originally Posted by johnny_defacto

John, please explain this to me because apparently we get our info from different places. Both parties spend more than they take in, both parties are destroying our country, but what the current admin is doing is crazy.

Reagans 8 years approx $1.5 trillion added to deficit
Bush 4 years approx $1.2 trillion added
Clinton 8 years, approx $1.5 trillion added
Bush 8 years, apporx $5.9 trillion added

If deficit spending is at X when you take office and it's X-1 a year later that is a reduction. Deficit and debt are two different things. And your post above indicates that you don't know that because you said Bush added $5.9tr to the deficit. That's not deficit, it's debt. Debt will always increase if the deficit is positive.

When you look at deficit spending increases as a percentage the Republicans are the worst offenders. Which makes them the worst contributors to the debt.

This is why Republicans appear to be ignorant of the facts and evangelists of the rhetoric. They seem to believe that the GOP leaders will magically be different the next time.

Originally Posted by fly135

This is why Republicans.... They seem to believe that the GOP leaders will magically be different the next time.

This right here, although incomplete, is part of the reason that I left the party on 04. The GOP is slowly being infiltrated by progressives. The Democratic party is completely infiltrated and has been for years.

I have no doubt that most republicans are hopeful the next president will be different, the nominee always promises that he will be different. However, the Democrats (over the past 100 years) have CONSISTENTLY spent, added programs, grown government, and made promises that cannot be kept. If I a den votes democrat, they know what they are getting, more government and less freedom. If a republican votes republican, they do not know who they are getting... it could be a progressive who wants more government and more programs (Bush) or someone who is an actual conservative. Its a crapshoot for those who vote for the republican...downside they get a RINO, upside they get someone who represents them.