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[Red Robin]

Our government exceeded the spending cap placed on our national debt and now owes more than 9 trillion dollars. I have heard that is 30,000 for every man , woman , and child. The spending is out of control. The government had no choice but to exceed the spending cap or default but they had a choice when they proposed the last couple of decades budgets that created this monster. Where will it end. When you go to the polls this fall vote prolife. Within the prolife candidates, vote for someone fiscally conservative with the integrity to keep his or her word. Liberty Bell, don't forget your upbringing if you ever decide to go to Washington. I'm no politician so these figures could be wrong. If anyone has any correct input or thinking , feel free. Dis, your input would be no more credible than the disinguine Democrats voting against exceeding the cap. Most of them certainly helped in creating this debt , now they want to default?

[Red Robin]

Woops. I had it slightly wrong here is the national debt clock.
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

[theHiredMansWife]

Congress has been Republican-controlled since what? 1994? Twelve years.
Both Congress and the Presidency have been Republican controlled since 2000. Six years.
Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, this president has been one of the spendiest ones in history. And his war is a fairly minor one compared to some that have preceeded it, so that's not the excuse.



Aren't conservatives supposed to be about fiscal responsibility and lack of government intrusion? Aren't liberals supposed to be the ones who spend money willy-nilly and welcome gov't regulations and intrusions?
Republicans have been spending money like a drunken sailor... But at least a drunken sailor is spending his own money. And Bush has never vetoed anything, mush less a chance to blow some more money!

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[theHiredMansWife]

I think the problem basically boils down to balance.
Historically speaking, Democrats were the ones that liked to spend money. Republicans provided the balance by saying, "No, we can't afford that this year."

But here in the last ten or fifteen years, Republicans have decided they like to spend money, too! The balance is gone and the deficit is proof. Neoconservatism at it's best.

[Red Robin]

You girls are spouting the party line, not me. I'm the one that posted it. I'm the one that is looking at it fair and balanced. The spending problem is certainly bipartisian. There are spending idiots on both sides of the isle. As a matter of fact, the higher the ranking the politician, the more pork spending . Here is a list compiled by someone of pork barrell spending. I wouldn't agree that all of it is unnecessary but some of it is. Why don't you girls take a look and see if there are any D's in front of some of these names.
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2005

[Disagreeable]

I've always thought we were better off to have the branches of government split between the parties. Since the Republicans have taken control of the House, they've raised bitter partisanship to a new level.

[theHiredMansWife]

RR, read my post directly preceding yours.

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