“I believe LDS scripture and prophets have urged us to live within our means, to be fiscally responsible. Democrats believe we need to pay for any programs we create, and Democratic administrations have, since the Great Depression, consistently lowered deficit spending, while the Reagan and two Bush administrations have greatly increased it. Democrats have a strong record of fiscal responsibility.”
How long ago was this article written?
this is almost laughable. Fiscally responsible? Who? It’s not the democrats. They tax us to death.
Sept. 1, 2009
Author: Boyd Petersen is the Program Coordinator for Mormon Studies at Utah Valley University, the biographer of Mormon scholar Hugh Nibley, and a former candidate for the Utah State legislature.
So much for mormon "discernment".
Democrats believe that OTHER PEOPLE should pay for any program they create.
It is true that Democrats didn't have as much trouble running up the deficit, because they did raise taxes to force others to pay for the programs they used to buy the votes of the poor and weak-minded in this country.