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To: Road Walker who wrote (309756)	11/8/2006 12:43:23 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1574258

wait and see if the Dems are more fiscally responsible than the Neos By my standards I doubt they will be. By your standards it wouldn't surprise me if they are. I'm not talking about bias in measuring how the standards are met, but rather objectively applying different standards. I believe if the deficit decreases (esp. if it decreases in nominal dollars, but maybe even if it decreases in real dollars and/or as a percentage of the GDP) you would say they are more fiscally responsible. Of course deficits have already decreased, and even if the Democrats do nothing, the deficit will be likely to continue to decrease (unless we get a recession). I'd consider them more responsible if they reduce spending, or at least control spending, and if they pass (or at least make a serious effort to pass) entitlement reform that will contain spending going forward. Bush and the current Republican congress failed on my measures. They didn't contain spending. They tried some entitlement reform, but he never really got it off the ground, and when it looked doomed early they got away from the effort (and a number of them opposed it from the beginning). So to be better the Dems have a low hurdle to jump. Low enough that its possible that they might make it, but I doubt they will.