Yep, its funny watching the way guys like AK47/Range Rover operate. He is either mentally retarded, or willfully ignorant. Everyone knows that congress designs the budget, and designs any of the bills that go through it. Dont get me wrong, Bush and Reagan were just as guilty, because they signed all this garbage into law, and they also threw out alot of bad ideas. I just find it humorous when these jackasses make the claims that republicans are the big spenders.
Here we have a group of 500+ people who create everything that becomes law and every single time the majority of those 500 people are democrats the debt drastically rises, Every time the majority of those 500 people are conservative the debt decreases, yet dumb asses will claim that the big spenders are conservatives, because 1 conservative (Reagan) was to much of a chicken shit to veto all of the liberal spending bills. And 1 other conservative (Bush) was a hopeless moron.
The other thing is that liberals will fight tooth and nail to maintain spending on programs, and they will fight for more government spending, they will willingly admit they want more government spending, and when a conservative argues to lower spending they will demonize that person. So on the one hand they will call conservatives heartless bastards for wanting to lower spending on social programs, then they will turn right back around and attack conservatives saying they are the ones who spend to much. Does that even make sense? Why do liberals like AK47 feel the need to lie in order to justify their position? He is a liberal and he supports big spending yet he feels the need to lie and distort facts to justify his opinion. I may not agree with Ricter on anything in terms of politics but i have a lot of respect for him, because he is honest, and he will tell you very bluntly that he is very much in favour of socialism, and more government spending. Most liberals will tell you they are in favour of every single spending program in the book, then they will turn around and tell you they wont vote for a republican because they spend to much.
If AK47 had the slightest bit of intellectual honesty, or was even mentally capable of any kind of meaningful statistical analysis, he would realize the fact that control of the house/senate (500+people) is much more statistically significant then 2 presidents. If you were trying to draw a conclusion as to which party traditionally spends more.
I dont deny that Reagan and Bush were both profligate spenders, and they both share an equal part of the blame, but you would really have to be a delusional shit head to come to the conclusion that conservatives are the big spenders when all the data proves it wrong, only because clinton happened to be in office during the tech bubble, when republicans forced him to balance the budget.
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that ak and ft and all the other spend your ass off something for nothing liberals can not argue with... is that graph... that is beautiful.
any half witted american alive at the time remembers the contract with america forced bill clinton into conservatism. Just ask dick morris... who claims he helped clinton sell out the dems and the big spenders with triagulation so bill could be re elected.
That sort of triangulation might not even work for Obama now. Obama has shown liberal socialism to be such a failure Obama may have only one chance.... war with Iran.