[blam]

"Once Republicans were in power, they started spending money even faster than the Democrats did. "

Reagan did the same thing. He ran the defecit up, won the cold war with it and then the Democrats had to raise taxes to pay it off. Reagan got what he wanted because Democrats would have thrown the money away and raised taxes anyway.

Maybe that's Bush's strategy.

[RusIvan]

He ran the defecit up, won the cold war with it ==

It is wrong. Reagan didn't win cold war. He just astronomically increased US debts. http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

[liliesgrandpa]

"Reagan did the same thing."

Nice try at rewriting history, sorry, but I was around back then. Reagan was for smaller government (not like Bush), and lower taxes, and less spending.

He made a deal with the Dem’s that if he cut the tax rates, they would cut spending.

A lot more money came in the treasury due to the tax cuts, and the Dem’s went spending crazy (like Bush).

He did not have line idem veto.

[Osage Orange]

Reagan did the same thing. He ran the defecit up, won the cold war with it and then the Democrats had to raise taxes to pay it off.

LOL!!

The Dems never paid anything off...

That got a chuckle out of me...

[oldbrowser]

Reagan did the same thing. He ran the deficit up, won the cold war with it and then the Democrats had to raise taxes to pay it off. Reagan got what he wanted because Democrats would have thrown the money away and raised taxes anyway.

I thought someone said that it was the entitlement programs that took all of our tax revenues. Then when we had to fight the cold war or a recession, or the war on terror then we have to use deficit spending.