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To: Road Walker who wrote (2132)	9/24/2007 2:54:16 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

re: Perhaps the simplest being that "the facts" show that most of the debt was incurred when the Democrats controlled congress. Can you back that up with data? Can I back up with exact specific tonnages, the claim that the Atlantic Ocean has more water than Lake Michigan? Not off hand, but there isn't any doubt. I could come up with specific tonnage, and I could come up with total for spending and deficits when each party controlled congress, but its not worth the time. If you argue the sky isn't blue I'm not going to research the details of light wavelengths and rayleigh scattering to show that your wrong. Congress has mostly been controlled by Democrats since the era of routine deficit spending started. The total real deficit spending by Democratic controlled congresses dwarfs the deficit spending with Republican controlled congresses. In many years with somewhat high deficits you also had a Democratic president. When you finally got a Republican congress the deficit went down. Only in the last few years have you had a Republican Congress with a Republican president and relatively high deficits. And, before tax and spending changes by the new Democrat controlled congress have taken effect, deficits as a percentage of GDP deficts have gone down to lower than average levels compared to the size of the economy (average levels meaning average for the last few decades). The President has veto power over the budget. And congress has to vote in any budget. The president usually only gets a chance to veto large spending bills, not spending for a particular item.