I’m trying to imagine these two on the beaches at Normandy.
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That was very easy and enjoyable. Thanks!
I’m trying REAL HARD. Clicking my heels and saying “There’s no place like America, there’s no place like America…”
If you succeed, you should just move to DC. Almost all the deserving candidates eventually go there. 🙂
Plenty of guys wept on that beach and for good reason.
Lots of brave people were killed by German Nazis on that beach, but none of them stayed behind at the country club in the US. Do you always have this much difficulty with logic?
Under Ronald (we can have it all) Reagan, the national debt tripled and under Bush 2 (inheriting surpluses) the national debt nearly doubled. I don’t think when it comes to handling deficits that the Republicans have exactly been stellar.
Last year, my wife over spent our checking account by 10 cents, which was 5 times as much as we had over spent before. This year I over spent our checking account by $1000, but that was only double what we over spent last time, so I told my wife that I only doubled our deficit while she increased it by 5x! … How do you suppose she took that news? …hmmm?
Dumbass … I would suggest you go take a look at the facts jack! .. This administration has over spent as much money in 4 years as EVERY president from George Washington through Bill Clinton … COMBINED!!!! … in only 4 years! … oh, but he didn’t triple the deficit, so he spent less? … who does your checkbook? .. someone else I hope!
Look, I am no fan of GOP or DNC, or anyone else for that matter, spending up MY (and yours) money. They will always spend every penny of what we give them (and more) and they are all crooks for spending my daughters money, and my grandchildren’s (don’t even have any yet) money. But before the end of Obama’s next term, he will have more than doubled our entire national debt!… No, not just doubled the deficit, doubled the entire debt, which was accumulated by all other presidents before him. Which means, he will have double the debt of all other presidents combined!
I also suggest people like you go figure out what the fuck the difference between “deficit” and “debt” is … I am so sick and tired of idiots not understanding this simple and basic concept. You see it everyday on the news. They have no clue what a deficit is, nor a debt, and they use the terms interchangeably, especially when it is convenient to do so. If you can’t understand this simple concept, then you can’t understand 99% of what is posted on this blog.
Here, perhaps this can get you started:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms#Changes_in_debt_by_political_affiliation
From 1981 through 1989 (Ronald Reagan’s presidency, 8 years) our national debt increased from 1,787 billion to 3,757, a difference of 1,970 billion (1.97 trillion). Obama has added almost that much EVERY YEAR he has been in office!
From 2008 through 2010 (Obama, 2 yrs), our national debt went from 7,793 billion, to 9,247 billion, a difference of 1,454 billion (1.45 trillion), in just two years!, that is the fastest rate of any president in history, by far!
And if you don’t think these numbers look all that impressive, consider that these are all ADJUSTED dollars, meaning they are exactly a 1 for 1, apples to apples comparison.
When it comes to spending, during the first 4 years of the Obama administration, our government has spent by far more, at by far the fastest accelerating rate, ever in human history!
And perhaps the most disturbing part of this whole thing, 40 cents of every dollar that is now spent by our government is borrowed! … This was NOT true during Ronald Reagan’s presidency!
This means that for every dollar currently spent, we go in to debt another 40 cents! Any way you slice it, whether it is George Bush, Bill Clinton, or this asshat that is currently in office, this is totally INSANE!
Look, I am no friend of Obama as you know if you follow my posts. I agree that there are arguments that the way I have presented this could be misleading and I made no attempt to do so before the election. I am simply trying to make the point that the debt, deficits, or whatever has not exactly been well controlled when the Republicans have had their crack at governing. The idea that tax cuts produce more revenue has not worked as well as advertised. In fact, it seems to be a fairy tale.
Re-do your analysis by controlling for party control of Congress and break it down by party control of the House of Representatives and the Senate. I think you’ll find that analysis very interesting. I remember the Reagan years very well. The Republicans *never* controlled the House of Representatives (which is tasked with the initiation of all tax and appropriations bills) and only briefly controlled the Senate. I remember that every budget Reagan sent up was “Dead on Arrival” and that for many years spending was done by ongoing ‘Continuing Resolutions’. To the extent there was a ‘Clinton surplus’ credit goes to the Republican House of Representatives which greatly lowered the growth of the budget baseline. To be fair to George W Bush, he had a war to fight, and war fighting gets first dibs on tax revenues. The borrowing was done to cover the rest of the budget, to the extent budgets were passed. Much of the deficits and debt actually came after the Democrats took the House in 2007. They passed crap after that, some of which Bush vetoed, only to have his vetoes overridden, and he signed onto other crap to get the war appropriations. Obama has no such excuse, given the fact that no budget has been passed in 4 years now.
The national debt for all Presidents reached 1 trillion in 1981. By the time Regaan left office it was close to 3 trillion. To say the national debt tripled under his watch is correct. When Bush 2 took over, the national debt accumlated by all presidents was 5.7 trillion and when he left it was 10.7 trillion. So to say the national debt almost doubled on his watch is not off the mark.
I agree, what has been going under Obama is an outrage, but for the Republicans to claim they have been deficit hawks is highly misleading. They have shown no stomach to do anything about middle class entitlements either.
That being said, I voted for Romney and am upset he lost. I thought Romney was by far the more competent of the candidates.
I agree with you Andy. They have all failed in controlling the debt (and there was no ‘surplus’ during the Clinton years with the Republican Congress; they were still raiding Social Security to get this so called ‘surplus’). What is worrisome about Obama is he seems to flooring the accelerator with gleeful abandonment as he drives the car over the proverbial cliff.
They would’ve blamed the machine guns and the German’s behaviour on CO2.