What's So Conservative about Conservatives?

[Nbadan]

Damn those tax and spend liberals!

:madrun

This site tracks the current Reagan / Bush Debt. The Reagan-Bush Debt is how much of the national debt of the United States is attributable to the presidencies of Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, and the Republican fiscal policy of Borrow-And-Spend...

As of Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 10:51:44 PM in Washington, D.C.,
The Current ReaganBush Debt is:

$8,756,798,922,779.83

...which means that in a total of 19 years, these three presidents have approved of the creation of 90.35% of the entire national debt in only 8.1897 % of the 232 years of the existence of the United States of America.

Reagan Bush Debt (http://reaganbushdebt.org/)

[The Reckoning]

so it skips the clinton presidency?

[Nbadan]

Clinton ran a fiscal surplus....DUH!

[Nbadan]

http://zfacts.com/metaPage/lib/Stoft-2004-debt-presidents.gif

Source: Zfacts (http://zfacts.com/p/480.html)

[efrem1]

Art. I Section 7 of the US Constitution:

Section 7. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills.

Reagan's budgets were always dead on arrival in the Tip'ONeil controlled Congress. Bush behaved more like a liberal with the expansion of federal programs like No Child Left Behind and the Drug Perscription benefit.

[Nbadan]

Reagan's budgets were always dead on arrival in the Tip'ONeil controlled Congress. Bush behaved more like a liberal with the expansion of federal programs like No Child Left Behind and the Drug Perscription benefit.

None-the-less one cannot escape the fact that when all these debts were incurred we had a supposedly 'conservative President' in charge...so would McCain, perhaps the most anti-conservative Presidents to come down the pike in a long time, be much different?