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To: dadfly

I’m a huge admirer of RR but the debt and spending explosion started back then and has just continued regardless who is president

It makes you wonder


25 posted on 11/22/2023 8:09:09 PM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

From George Bush on the spending has gone unchecked and hit great heights. Too many wars and bad economic policy decisions and now a day of reckoning has arrived. No road left to kick the can down!

A economist I was following a few years back predicted that our Debt would hit $40 Trillion under Biden and it’s looking like it.


28 posted on 11/22/2023 8:13:40 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: RandFan

humm. the last President according to my studies, who really had a handle on the budget, was probably Silent Cal. but Hoover/FDR and the great depression followed by WWII sent fiscal responsiblity down the drain. i’ve read that, of all people in recent US history, Clinton had a nearly balanced budget, basically inheriting the momentum of great economy given to us by RR, the last great world leader and President, imho. things have certainly gone to hell in a hand-basket since Bush II.


30 posted on 11/22/2023 8:16:42 PM PST by dadfly ( )
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To: RandFan

You forget outsourcing, offshoring, Amnesty, 1986 Gun control... and appointing Bush as VP.


52 posted on 11/22/2023 8:47:19 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: RandFan

Congress controls the purse strings, not the POTUS.


77 posted on 11/23/2023 12:25:49 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: RandFan

“I’m a huge admirer of RR ... “

Don’t forget amnesty.


89 posted on 11/23/2023 3:36:10 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (As God's children, we live on promises, not explanations - Wiersbe)
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