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Yes there have been two fiscal conservatives in modern politics.
#1 John F. Kennedy (who was nothing like Ted)
#2 Ronald Reagan
Your point is well taken by me though, because we've only had a couple in the last 60 years we got the mess we have with the deficit.
Kennedy did make the mistake of allowing unions into the government. That also increased the deficit like crazy decades later as unions bribed themselves a Kings ransom.
Didn't Reagan leave office with a record-setting national debt?
As a short-run strategy to reduce inflation and lower nominal interest rates, the U.S. borrowed both domestically and abroad to cover the Federal budget deficits, raising the national debt from $997 billion to $2.85 trillion. This led to the U.S. moving from the world's largest international creditor to the world's largest debtor nation. Reagan described the new debt as the "greatest disappointment" of his presidency.
I didn't know that men could take that disease withe them when they died. You did say he has the disease.
You think Reagan is thinking better now?
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Who's a fiscal conservative?
