Except Jerry if you look at teh real numbers, its been the Democratic Presidents who have shrunk the debt and minimized the increase in the size of government. For instance:
Reagan grew the debt 300% and the govt 7% per year. Bush 1 grew the debt by 50% and the govt by 5% per year Clinton: 30% debt growth, govt 3% per year Bush II, 80% debt growth, govt 6% per year Obama, 33% debt growth and govt grew 1.4% per year. On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Ok, so you all realize that economic policy really hasn't changed in 20 > years no matter what party runs what right?" > > Only the driver and the speed of the bus change. Some go a little faster, > some a little slower. Destination is the same. > > > > "Republicans do like to have federal government run your personal life " > > Really? > > Theoretically, Republicans are for smaller government. How would a smaller > government be able to run someone's personal life better than a > huge bureaucracy, which is one of the calling cards of the Democratic Party? > > Notice I said theoretically. Republican say they want smaller government. > They haven't done anything in the last 40 years to actually prove that. > > I know where this will end up. It will end up with contraception, > abortion, and gay marriage. Before that is thrown out, I would say that > most Republicans do not want the government to pay for contraception and > abortion. As fars as making these illegal, I doubt there is a significant > portion of the party that would care about the legality of contraception. > Certainly, a higher percentage would like to make abortion illegal, but in > this day, I doubt it is over 50%. Only the blow hards get press on this > career killing issue. On gay marriage, I'd say over half oppose it, but > the margin is shrinking. Plenty of Democrats still oppose it as well. > It's only a matter of time before this becomes a non-issue due to general > acceptance. > > The irony is that people will preach that they want the government to stay > out of their bedrooms but they want government to pay for contraception and > abortions. > > > J > > - > > Ideologues are prone to mistaking their ideal for the real. Whether > consciously or not, they tend to see what they want to see and to find what > they want to find. The impulse to evaluate reality by how it vindicates the > greater theory leads to a selective use of facts, cooking the books, and > simply making things up when the facts dont cooperate. In other words, > ideologues draw conclusions prior to investigating. Smaller truths pale in > comparison with the importance of the larger truth, the ideology. - > Daniel J Flyn > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:358036 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
