Who controls all branches of govt currently and has for most of the last 10 years?
I haven't seen a truly fiscally conservative Republican in my 55 years.
But, by all means keep supporting a world renowned grifter, huckster, carnival barker, born on third base and thinks he hit a triple moron, and his enablers - I'm sure it will all work out swimmingly.
I can show you the evidence I can't make you understand it.
oh, I understand it completely..I had to put together federal budgets back in my working days...and I certainly am not defending either trump or the Republican Congress on budgets. I'm older, I saw plenty of fiscal conservatives...were you not paying attention during the "contract with America" back in the '90s or the Republican house and Senate which worked with the Clinton WH to balance the budget in 2000? But, I'm not trying to contradict, you slightly exaggerated but your point is right on. And you're 100% right control of the government over the past 10 years has been mainly Republican and they have not stepped up in fiscal conservatism.
I'll also say that grifters, hucksters, carnival barkers, and even those born on third base have the capability to balance budgets, heck you can even add in sexual abuses to your list. None of those attributes limits that person.
But you don't go far enough in your post. When was the last time you saw a fiscally conservative Congress, either party. We've have been on a spending spree since 2001 starting with Bush all the way up to trump2. So we can weep and gnash, but what do we do about it? Republicans seem to want to :"lower our taxes" out of this. That's nonsensical on it's face, plus it's been tried and failed. Democrats seem to want to spend our way out of it - not that republicans aren't doing the same thing - and that's not going to work either. So for me, the solution lies somewhat into the middle...we need to increase taxes and I personally don't care if it's on people making over $1million (or pick any number) or more, or tax billionaires (although I think wealth taxes might create more problems), and we need to cut spending...yes DoD but also on social programs. If we're concerned about $2 trillion deficits every year we can't add more spending....
So when I read posts that put the blame on Republicans or on democrats solely, I think that's as nonsensical as "lower our taxes" out of this disaster. And to pis* off everybody, any poster that continuously does that falls into the "lower our taxes" either head in the sand or nonsensical category.
Oh, and just to support my theory, both the gramm-rudman-hollings bill in the 1980s and the simpson-bowles studies during the Obama years, came to exactly the same conclusions.
