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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
Clinton didn't get it to zero. Gingrich did. Obama didn't reduce fuck all, congress did. Stop it. I've spoken to you IRL. Your restaurant choices imply a poor sense of smell, but your senses otherwise seem fine.
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I don't ordinarily respond to the same post twice, but I will also say that you just asked, "Every dollar in the budgets approved by Ds was covered by taxes? When they kick up spending they always cover with $$$$?" The answer to your question is, obviously, "no," as both of us knew. If you can ask a faux-naive question, I can repeat a post. And as to whether the President (as opposed to Congress) is solely responsible for all spending, I'll repeat another post:
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.
