Quote from bigdavediode:
By contrast, I'm a fiscal conservative and will vote for whatever party will reduce the deficit. Clearly the Republicans have not been, and are not, that party.
Looking at the CBO projections right now, and the already reduced deficit this year, the Democrats seem to be doing it (albeit too slowly).
Quote from Trader666:
Oh please... these numbers were from Obama's budget. How fiscally conservative are you really?]
Quote from bigdavediode:
Extremely fiscally conservative. So let's take a look at your graphs:
1) Your first chart is out of date and is based on an old projection. The current CBO projection for the deficit is $1.34 trillion, down from $1.4 trillion and down from $1.5 trillion at the end of Bush's last fiscal budget (2009)
2) The second graph includes Bush's last fiscal year (2009), blames Obama for it, and then uses out of date deficit projections to project the debt. Worst of all, it doesn't appear to count Bush's "off-budget" "emergency" expenditures which the Republicans hid and Obama has merged into the budget.
Quote from Trader666:
Extremely fiscally conservative? ROTFLMAO!!!! No sane fiscal conservative would even come close to approving of the democraps' spending on steroids.
If you want to nitpick, the latest version of Obama's budget projects the national debt at $16.68 trillion in 2020, up from "only" $15.4 trillion in the graph I posted.
Quote from bigdavediode:
So I should be upset at the Democrats' spending when the deficit is down?
Or is it 10 years projections (which I never take seriously) that I'm supposed to give more weight to?