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Bush tried to impersonate a democrate and sign as many spending bills that crossed his desk. He didn't care if it was funded or not. Remember the medicaid spending plan? Not even funded. It was bad then, it's bad now.
It was bad then, it is much worse now.
Bush (gray) vs. Obama (red/pink) deficit spending:
Mostly because Republicans don't care about the deficit and never have. They'll use it to make cheap political points among uninformed people but the basic fact is Republicans ALWAYS drive the deficit higher and higher and worse they make retarded and illogical claims knowing they're lying and that the net result will be a sky high deficit. I'm thinking specifically about the claim that "tax cuts pay for themselves" which Republicans have been making since 1980. It's just a big lie.
As you know, under the leadership of George W. Bush, these same Republicans turned a record-breaking federal surplus left by President Clinton into record-breaking deficits. Back then, their rallying cry was "deficits don't matter" articulated by then-Vice President Dick Cheney. This "deficits don't matter" philosophy gave us two wars that were not paid for -- and there are estimates that the Iraq War alone will end up costing some $3 trillion, $700 billion in tax breaks to the richest one percent, a $400 billion unpaid for prescription drug program written by the pharmaceutical industry, and a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street.
But under President Obama, Republicans have seemingly taken a 180-degree turn. Now, apparently, deficits do matter. Now, they say we can't afford to extend unemployment insurance to two million Americans who lost their jobs in the worst recession in modern history. And, they say we can't create new jobs by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure or transforming our energy system.
And the Republican hypocrisy is about to advance to a whole new level. In the name of "fiscal responsibility" they are opposing virtually every effort to help the middle class and working families of our country. But, when it comes to the needs of millionaire and billionaire families, they have no problem reducing revenue by hundreds of billions of dollars. In other words, they are deficit hawks when it comes to the needs of ordinary people, but they are big spenders when it comes to the needs of the rich.
As you know, a president cannot spend a single penny of our collective money. They can only approve or disapprove of what congress puts on their desk.
Clinton never had a surplus, only a projected surplus based on revenues that were calculated during the dotcom bubble. But nevertheless, our country was getting in better shape fiscally. And EVERY single penny spent and EVERY single cut made after 1994 was because a Republican congress put it on his desk. You cannot credit Clinton without crediting the Republican held congress.
Now we find ourselves with soaring deficits that began in the early Bush years, but soared WAY FASTER from 2006 to present. Part of that was with a Dem congress, Rep president, the worst of it has come under a Dem congress with HUGE majorities and a Dem president. You cannot blame the Reps without putting a lot of blame on the Dems at the same time.
I do believe the op is stating the fact that the Republican party was just fine with the deficit rising at an alarming rate under the previous administration but, as soon as the Dems took control they began screaming about it rising.
So how about it? Do Republicans have an answer for that?
How come it didn't matter & now it does?
Bushs deficit with a Republican Congress in 2007 was about $150B. What is it now?
The Dems really truly believe it's the Republicans fault.
Dem President, Dem majority Congress and a slowly changing Supreme Court mean nothing.
It's the Republicans fault and don't you try to argue that..you hear ?
It has me wonder how the Democratic party managed to brain wash so many individuals in society into ignoring reality and blaming the party not even in office
Its that or there are so many dumb Democrats in america who just cant understand basic accounting and economic principles, which I guess is possible, I just never realised they were this obvious about it and there were so many of them who just dont have a clue..
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