Nobody wants to admit it but both parties are trash when it comes to federal spending and...... (politician, elections)
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Both parties are full of politicians that push for their pet projects that are often full of pork. This is what being a member of Congress is all about because they are beholden to their state and securing funds for projects etc...
Both parties are all about spending money and it was Trump who was more of a business man than a politician that tried to reign in the waste and that is part of why he was hated by the Dems and half of the Reps.
What really gets me is how the Dems like to spend our tax dollars. Do we really need to spend tens of millions of dollars on Gender studies in Pakistan? We spend hundreds of millions of dollars to prop up foreign countries that do little for us in return, Why? Biden has already pledged Billions to aide Ukraine in their rebuild?
Both parties spend like there is no tomorrow. What we need is another business man in office but more so the spendthrift ways of our elected needs to change. Don't hold your breath because they will only print more money.
I might have agreed with the title of this thread even 15 years ago when it was the Republicans who wanted more and more funding for the military, while the Democrats wanted more money for welfare programs.
Now, however, I cannot think of anything the Republicans want to spend boatloads of money on unless it is for immigration issues -- and "The Wall" (even though, from what I have gathered, most Republicans are actually no longer in favor of that).
Of course I could be wrong, but I would be willing to bet that if the Republicans take over the House in 2022, the budget might very possibly be reduced in many areas.
All just went along with 13.6 billion for Ukraine. They are all complicit with rare exceptions.
I admit it, readily. I've said it dozens of times on this forum before - they all want to spend your money, they just want to spend it on different stuff.
Ronald friggin Reagan is the one who started this trash policy of running federal deficits. Neither party has any credibility on running this country. GOP just happens to talk about it every 4 years when it comes for election time.
actually we have been running deficits for 100 years
I might have agreed with the title of this thread even 15 years ago when it was the Republicans who wanted more and more funding for the military, while the Democrats wanted more money for welfare programs.
Now, however, I cannot think of anything the Republicans want to spend boatloads of money on unless it is for immigration issues -- and "The Wall" (even though, from what I have gathered, most Republicans are actually no longer in favor of that).
Of course, I could be wrong, but I would be willing to bet that if the Republicans take over the House in 2022, the budget might very possibly be reduced in many areas.
Why do you keep falling for their empty words, just watch the budgets when Republicans are in charge. What do you see? No change from when Democrats are in charge.
There is no incentive to change the current system from either party. Most get re-elected without a challenge so in the eyes of the politicians they are doing exactly what you want.
I think that it’s good that the country is going down so rapidly. Maybe it will shock Americans into doing something about it. We voted for Trump so there is hope that people can think outside the box.
The elected officials in office and I don't mean the President need to do their job and come up with a budget already. These knee jerk extensions are doing nothing but causing more money to be wasted over their ineptitude, both sides are at fault and both sides need to do what's expected of them already.
Republicans tend to spent more wisely and on more useful things that contribute to the economy. Trump’s years of a strong economy is proof (2020 pandemic economic lockdown driven by Democrat governors to hurt Trump notwithstanding).
"Trump's years of a strong economy" were inherited from Obama. Nothing a president does can impact the economy within a couple of years.
Neither party cares about fiscal responsibility. Its a never ending spending contest every time the other party regains control. Our governments have become so incredibly large at almost every city, state and federal level.
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