Republicans say "democrats like to spend money"

[laura888]

This is a major reason why many say they are repubs. They view dems as free-spending liberals.

And yet which republican president in the last 30 years has spent LESS than a democratic president? It seems they might cut taxes, but they always get up to their necks in debt. So obviously they're not spending less.

Most notably Reagan and Bush W. They spend money like there's no tomorrow.

I don't get it - why don't repubs get this?

[Deja Q]

1. Screw the repigs, why isn't America's POPULATION getting this?

Even at Gay Pride 2003, the repigs had their booth -- with the usual slogan of "the party of fiscal responsibility". I gave them a very hard angry glare but did not confront them, mostly because they're not worth my time. Besides, they were arguing with another person already. :D

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

10. Republicans like to borrow money, and spend it

They never proposed a balance budget from what I can remember, the Democrats did.

[asjr]

2. money

Republicans would rather steal it.

[arwalden]

3. Eighty-Seven-BILLION Dollars Times Five =

IRRESPONSIBILITY!

[leesa]

4. Because they are people who are led and who scorn thinking

Republicans always spend more because they always "lose" large sums of money during their administration and they always give out LOTS of corporate welfare and defense spending which somehow never counts as government spending. The Republican idiots believe them when they say the opposite of what they really do though.

[noiretextatique]

5. it is one of the BIG republican LIES

to mask their fiscal irresponsibility :grr:

[gristy]

6. Here's a very good set of graphs showing gov't spending over the years

http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/pol_sci/fac/sahr/sumbudg.pdf

Bush does not compare well to past presidents w.r.t. spending. Note that the graphs only go up to 2002; 2003 is going to be a "banner" year for spending and the deficit.

[tlcandie]

7. Tell the sheeple something often enough .. they believe it!

Most don't research or try to find the truth...they are too busy! :shrug:

One day soon, I'm afraid we will all have more time on our hands that money or anything else to really find out what the truth is :(

[not systems]

8. great charts

Clinton was the real fiscal conservative of the last
fifty years. Interesting.

[laura888]

14. amen - this is Clinton's real legacy!

n/t

[noiretextatique]

9. thanks for the graphs, gristy

they really do tell the story.

[Corgigal]

11. Everyone

loves to spend money but Dems spend the money they have while Repubs spend the money they don't.

[Pobeka]

12. "Cut and spend" The real republican motto.

They have no excuses this time.

They control the white house and both houses of congress.

This one's all theirs.

[snippy]

13. Since Kennedy was president, republican presidents have always

had larger federal deficits in current dollars, in constant dollars and as a percentage of GDP, than democratic presidents. http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2004/sheets/hist01z3.xls (The estimates for 2003 and subsequent years are no longer applicable. The current estimates are for higher deficits. Also, the numbers for the first year of a presidential term are from the budget of the preceeding term.)

[western mass]

15. borrow & spend, credit card republicans

the fact that Democrats don't repeat this over and over again like a mantra every chance they get... is EXACTLY what's wrong with the gutless (most of) the Democratic party these days.

[laura888]

16. true! why don't democrats bring this up every chance they get?

n/t