10-23-2004, 05:30 PM
I love when people make up facts to support their argument.
Check out http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx@docID=148.html (which is well documented and non partisan) to see what the deficit has been since the start of the Reagan years.
I wish the graphs included information from earlier presidencies as well. Unfortunately, there was only one Democrat president during the time shown so you can't really show trends of D vs. R. But what does show there is that Reagan and Bush Sr. both ran greater deficit budgets than dubbya has been running when compared to the national economic output. And Clinton was the only one to run a surplus budget in that time.
These are facts. Anyone can check them from the government records.
Build your arguments as you will.
Check out http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx@docID=148.html (which is well documented and non partisan) to see what the deficit has been since the start of the Reagan years.
I wish the graphs included information from earlier presidencies as well. Unfortunately, there was only one Democrat president during the time shown so you can't really show trends of D vs. R. But what does show there is that Reagan and Bush Sr. both ran greater deficit budgets than dubbya has been running when compared to the national economic output. And Clinton was the only one to run a surplus budget in that time.
These are facts. Anyone can check them from the government records.
Build your arguments as you will.
Gullible isn't in the dictionary.