you know that's not true, but you just can't help yourself.
ya see, with bush, the annual deficits got higher and higher. unless he was hiding the iraq war spending and other spending as "emergency spending", he never ran a smaller deficit than the year previous.
contrast that with the current president, who is overseeing annual deficits that become smaller and smaller at a faster and faster rate.
add to this the fact that this is occurring during rough economic times, rather than good economic times, and the feat is even more impressive.
fact is that in recent history, the republicans blow up deficits and democrats get them back in line. happens over and over again, without fail.
so much for your "fiscally conservative" party. the democrats now have that title.
ok ill tell you one more time, but this is the last time. if you still cant figure this out then youre a dumbass.
Budgeting Washington Style
(Either Party, Both Do The Same Shit And Have For 50 Years. )
Draft a Budget based on 12 year Projections:
Step 1 ) Spend like a drunken sailor, promise everyone a hot chick and a puppy, cut taxes or at least no new taxes and create a massive deficit budget for Years 1 through 4
Step 2 ) in years 5 & 6 "baseline" spending increases slow, resulting in reduced expenditure when compared to the "baseline budget increase" you used for years 1-4
Step 3 ) in years 7 through 12 baseline budget increases stop entirely or become minescule, resulting in vast projected surpluses in the distant future, but only if everything goes to plan perfectly.
step 4 ) when the budget actually is implemented, create a new budget along these same lines every year, so the actual reductions in expenditures NEVER OCCUR, and are simply pushed down the road endlessly all those debts are now effectively
Somebody Else's Problem for as long as you can keep kicking the can down the road
fortunately Bwana Obama couldnt get his own fucking party to pass a fucking budget, so the bush budget actually reached step 2, and THAT made the deficits smaller. if the bush budget were to reach step 3, we might even see a reduction in the debt. Bwana Obama gets NO CREDIT for his failure to pass a budget, and thus gets no credit for the bush budget reaching the previously unheard of step 2 where expenditures get proportionately slightly smaller, despite still increasing as a gross number.
if you still cannot figure out that this is where clinton's fictional surplusses came from, and where bush's promises of future fiscal responsibility lived, etc etc etc then you're an idiot.
PS, the clinton budget and it's attendant projectiosn were actually LESS accurate than bush's because clinton's budgets simply aassumed the dot com bubble would continue to inflate endlessly, and everyone in america would become a pets dot com billionaire by 2005 those projectiosn and budgets were ridonkulous.
