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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (25766)	2/6/2010 12:16:10 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Re: "Did you see the chart posted showing the tax increases pushed by each President?" Of course! And I've posted 'em MYSELF numerous times. Here are some (with LOT'S OF CHARTS, take your pick): Heritage Org's chart showing all Federal Deficits by recent Presidents: Message 25424228 Presidents and the Federal Debt White House Data Confirms: Reagan-Bush Administrations Created Post-WWII Federal Debt: Message 25778182 I looked up how much the REAL U.S. Federal Debt went up, or went down, under each of these post WW II Presidents... (the ones who were President during most of our lives). ("Real Debt" means the national debt in Dollars, adjusted for inflation, and measured as a percentage of the Gross National Product - G.N.P. - of the United States. The way most economists prefer to look at a nation's debt. All taken from the official US budget numbers.) Message 25406406 Republican Deficit Hypocrisy Forbes Bruce Bartlett, 11.20.09, 12:01 AM ET forbes.com The human capacity for self-delusion never ceases to amaze me, so it shouldn't surprise me that so many Republicans seem to genuinely believe that they are the party of fiscal responsibility. Perhaps at one time they were, but those days are long gone. This fact became blindingly obvious to me six years ago this month when a Republican president and a Republican Congress enacted the Medicare drug benefit, which former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker has called "the most fiscally irresponsible piece of legislation since the 1960s." Message 26116737 Who Gets the Blame for the Deep Deficit? Message 25902563