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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: TimF who wrote (39915)12/24/2009 10:26:22 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Silly.

No one disputes that World War II (and the aftermath of the Great Depression) hugely increased America's national debt.

Not that we had a Hell of a lot of choice in either matter though....

And --- every single President since the end of WW II succeeded in net-paying-down America's huge war debts... up until the nineteen 'eighties reversed that.

Now, as far as "Just considering who is president, ignores congress" I agree completely!

BOTH Congress *and* whoever sits in the White House are jointly responsible for what goes on with America's annual budgets.

And I never said any different.

(Simply referring to eras by the President that was in popwer at the time is just a convenient short-hand that everyone uses... since I have never seen any practical off-hand way to refer to historical eras by the 435 Congressional members.)

Regardless of that point, (with which I never disagreed with your view), there ARE some historical economic analysis which have attempted to RANK *what combinations* of Political Party control of the WH and the Congress create the BEST RESULTS for national debt reduction, and which combinations cause the WORST RESULTS (i.e., the biggest debt increases).

I suppose I could add the results of those analysis to the links on my page... but I suspect that it would not make you any happier....
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