Why are Democrats better fiscal conservatives than Republicans?
January 11, 2009
Ian asked:
In simple terms, for every $1 Democrat presidents have raised the national debt by in the past 59 years, Republican presidents have raised it by $2.99 in comparison.
In simple terms, for every $1 Democrat presidents have raised the national debt by in the past 59 years, Republican presidents have raised it by $2.99 in comparison.
January 13th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Gotta’ source for this assertion?
January 14th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Probably because the President was facing a congress of the opposite party! Congress makes the laws and draws up the budget. The President has to sign it or veto it, but without line item veto, he can only do one or the other. Most times, voters will vote in a Democrat for President, while making the congress Republican at the same time. Kinda balances out the power!
So in your example, how many of those Republican Presidents had a Democratic congress to deal with. Or, as in Bushies case, had to fund a war.
January 17th, 2009 at 6:46 am
And the GOP has worked out their lie about “tax and spend Democrats” in a lame effort to cover their azzes.
Democrats just care. They care. Reality matters to them. They don’t believe in being police to the world, or being in the hip pocket of people wealthy enough to try and rewrite Darwin’s law to favor their weak selves.
January 20th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Because when a Democratic President gets into office, people quickly get rid of a Democratic-controlled Congress… just look at 1994.
So, a Democratic President is more likely to have to deal with a Congress that has differing fiscal goals. Logically, spending will go up when Congress is controlled by the same party as the President, since they’re less likely to disagree on how to spend money. When the Legislature and Executive brances are controlled by different parties, they’re more likely to have to compromise and strip out quite a few things, that the other wouldn’t agree to.
Yet another reason to vote for McCain in 2008, with a Democratic-controlled Congress extremely likely to continue for at least several years.
January 21st, 2009 at 8:06 pm
They’re not.
January 22nd, 2009 at 8:09 am
In the past 16 years the democrats have a established a better record of ‘pay as you go’ taxes to budget goals financing. Under the current Bush administration we have increased spending for the war in Iraq and reduced taxed. Simple math shows a deficit.
This deficit equates to the Treasury printing more money which devalues the dollar, and issuing more T-notes and bonds that Chinese gov. buys. Our country in indebted to the Chinese which gives us little influence in international affairs with them. In all the tough talk that the Bush Administration has about America, he has actually made us weaker as a country and has passed on debt to the next generation of Americans.
January 24th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
The Republican Party is the party of BIG BUSINESS!
Their members and contributors make tanks, ships, and fighter planes and sell them to the government. And they make large donations to the party and to the candidates to get them elected.
In return, the candidates gain office and once in office they reward their contributors with contracts to build tanks, ships, and fighter planes.
These things cost much more than the government takes in in taxes, but they don’t care. They spend big and as a result the Republicans are not fiscally conservative. They are big spenders for big business.
If there is no reason for the tanks and ships and planes, they will make one up.
They will get people to believe that a tiny nation is a threat to our national security and convince everyone that we must prepare for war and invade this tiny nation to protect ourselves.
This costs money.
The truth is, the USA can drop a bomb into a dumpster anywhere on this planet and blow up everything within twenty miles of that dumpster.
With that kind of power, why would the USA need to have all that it does?
The answer is MONEY!
And now that the Republicans have figured out a way to win presidential elections (Karl Rove and his ilk) they will keep on financially enslaving the middle class of the USA until they are removed from office or the USA goes into a great depression, which is the direction in which we are headed now.
The Republicans reward those who contribute and in doing so they put the nation into the largest debt the world has ever seen.
The Democrats have traditionally been the party of the lower classes, the working man, the middle classes, the shop owner. Those people don’t contribute as much.
January 25th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
No, Ian is correct. I have seen this too, and the source is from the Bureau of the Public Debt./U.S. Department of the Treasury and US Office of the Clerk. To make matters worse, when Republicans gain the House & Senate as WELL as the Presidency , the debt grows even faster than if they just had the Presidency alone.
The reason is this. When Republicans get in power, they spend obscene amounts of money on everything from unnecessary wars to pork projects (read about the Republican “bridge to nowhere” if you don’t believe me), while doing tax cuts through at the same time. This naturally leads to massive debt.
By the way, the current National Debt is 9.4 Trillion dollars – TRIPLE that of the pre-Bush years. The Republican party are solely responsible for this, as they dominated all branches of Government and set the spending agenda during the tripling of this debt.
January 27th, 2009 at 9:21 am
democrats- increase spending and increase taxes…. republicans- increase spending and pretend to lower taxes…
republicrats- the same party that always increases government and always increases taxes.
the issue here is an out of control federal government. we would never be in this mess if we minded the constitution
January 29th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Interesting numbers, but what is the source?
The Democratic Party?
At any rate, our government is NOT THE LEAST CONSERVATIVE! If so, we would not have a deficit.