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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: John Vosilla who wrote (175304)11/4/2011 1:14:59 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 541319
 
<<But one thing always bothers me is liberalism tends to make costs of everything, especially housing, go through the roof so becomes >>

John, you are sort of new here, but we liberals hear that a lot (I.e. liberals cause costs to rise), but the facts show a different story and we have all posted the chart at one time or another. I have it memorized, so here it is in a nutshell.

Before Carter we owed less than a trillion.

Carter deficits 50 billion a year
Raygun: 250 billion a year
Bush senior: 250 billion a year
Clinton: not much at all and last four years of surpluses
little bush: 5 trillion
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