Hello cawacko,
Originally Posted by
cawacko
You are not wrong in any way about the excess spending of the Obama administration. But what has Trump or the (previous) Republican Congress done about it? Nothing. The biggest spending items on the federal ledgar are entitlements (S.S., Medicare etc) and the military. Trump ran on not touching entitlements and increasing military spending. We have a booming economy yet still have massive deficits that are only increasing.
It takes two to tango and there's a reason we have a $22 trillion national debt. We as voters may complain about it but we rarely punish those in office for it because we ultimately like it.
I've been a Republican my entire life. One of the reason's when I was young is that they stood for fiscal responsibility. As I've gotten older and seen multiple Republican administrations and Congresses I realize that's not generally the case. What I realize now is they're going to spend a lot, they just happen to spend on issues more important to me than the ones democrats spend on.
If controlling spending was truly an issue I'd argue we'd elect more Libertarians. But most of us give lip service to fiscal discipline but like the (big) government programs we use imo (unfortunately).
Well said.
I would like to add that deficits dropped under Democrats more than under Republicans, where deficits grew more. The conclusion has to be that Democrats are better with the national purse strings than Republicans. And this has been especially difficult for Democrats, because Dems have frequently inherited an economic mess and/or recession, and left Republicans with a strong economy.
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