Originally Posted by ba1025

Actually wasn't the lions share of the federal debt created under Republicans the last 30 years. How many of those was the congress controlled by the republicans? yeah this is where you throw out GDP mumbo jumbo. Then your statement is without context and therefore meaningless The bottomline is republicans have a history of borrowing against our future and cutting taxes not reducing spending or deficits. And the democrats have a history of ever increasing taxes to fund more welfare programs. That way of thinking went out with Goldwater. Who gave us wage and price controls???? President NIXON, And he allowed federal employees to unionize. May I point to GWB and the Republican Congress of 2000-2006. How many times do I have to say I agree with you that Bush spends too much money? Well, along with record deficits they gave us record earmarks. Then why did Nanci Pelosi refuse to restrict earmarks just a few weeks ago? Why should i trust then again? They rraised non defense discretionary spending faster than Clinton and cut taxes. Which political theory has you raise non defense spending, go to war, create the largest new entitlement in 40 years and cut taxes? Would that be the Albatross theory of governance? Why do you think Bush has such a low rating? Because his base, the conservatives who favor a small government, is angry at him. But they know the alternative, be it Gore, Kerry, Clinton, or god forbid Obama, would increase the spending even faster and add taxes on top of that. If you think the current economic slow down is bad, wait until you get Obama in the White House with a congress controlled by the democrats.

The only thing I hate worse than taxes is borrowing money form the CCP