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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
I feel like I’m talking to my dog, but without the shock collar. Clinton and Obama did not do the budgets they wanted. They accepted the budgets the Rs agreed to. I’m done trying to get you to understand.
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Yes, I understand that. Both Democratic and Republican Presidents work with both Democratic and Republican Congresses. No President gets to pass a budget. Congress does.
Nevertheless, you can go back forty years and the pattern is very clear. Every Republican President has increased the deficit. Every Democratic President has decreased the deficit. It's not a coincidence.
A big part of it is that Republican legislators pretend to care about deficits when there's a Democratic President, and then are all too happy to run bigger deficits when there is a Republican President. We have just seen this. Republicans worked hard to block spending by Obama, and then forgot those principles and have run increasingly huge deficits under Trump. If Biden wins in November, these Republicans will go back to raising phony concerns about deficits in January.
