Are you bragging about a $345 deficit? IF so, you are no conservative.
The federal budget deficit is projected to be $480 billion this year, and even the bush administration officials say they have no hope of getting it below $250 billion deficit per year in the foreseeable future, even if the jobless somehow got jobs. In addition, we have a $40 billion a month trade deficit, combined, that equals a trillion dollars a year.
There is a difference between then and now, back then , those who lost their jobs to the Japanese were able to get retrained, and find other jobs, and they still ended up paying taxes. Now, there are no other jobs to train for, if your factory closes and moves to communist china, you cant learn computer programming and get another job.
FYI, a real conservative, any conservative, would not be bragging about having a trillion dollar deficit, nor even a $350 billion dollar deficit.
Those who dont care about hundred billion dollar deficits are certainly not conservatives, please dont pretend to be one.
You are spin disoriented. {;-D
Just remember - Republican deficits good - Democrat deficits bad. Republican budget busting good - Democrat budget busting bad. Democrat war bombing is Monica time - Republican war bombing same places is fighting terrorism.