" I always thought of myself as slightly conservative on the fiscal side".
I have always been puzzled why people who considered themselves fiscally "conservative" or "responsible" voted Republican?? A true mystery.
Ronald Reagan, after lying about being a fiscal "conservative" added a massive TWO TRILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT (5.1 Trillion Dollars in todays dollars) during his 8 year gigantically irresponsible spending and tax cutting spree. Same thing with Bush II. GIGANTIC debt PLUS crashing the entire economy.
Same thing with Trump. His corporate tax cut added 4 TRILLION dollars to the National Debt.
Reagan began with a post WWII LOW in total government debt of around 1 Trillion.
Jimmy Carter had previously, for his four years, continued, like all Presidents since WWII in paying down the debt.
In fact, Jimmy Carter was the LAST fiscally responsible and conservative President of the post WWII era. The only other President that even tried to be responsible was Bill Clinton. He left office having turned Repuiblican's upward debt trajectory into a flat graph with very slight downward direction. But, Bush II saw that hint of responsibility immediately began massive debt spending on and off the books to reward Haliburton.
The Republicans and their lies about "cutting taxes will bring in more money to the treasury" are the very definition of IRRESPONSIBLE.
Yet, despite the data, to this day, people use their imagination to tell themselves lies that Republicans are fiscally responsible.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Just google the National Debt and overlay that graph with all Presidents since WW II. Easy to see that Republicans are out of control spenders and highly irresponsible.
But, people will "believe" what they want. Reality seems not to ever intrude on the Republican mind.
We don’t talk enough about how OPEC lowered production after Nixon took us off the gold standard. The oil shortages and high price of oil sunk the 70’s economy, and ruined Carter’s re-election campaign.
KISS. Keep it simple stupid .The original bumper sticker, brought to education. Followed by political affiations like Centrist or Independent or Conservative or Originalist or some other gingoist attribute that says it all and says nothing. My favorite now is Inflation, a measure of economic activity that some think government or Mr Biden should be blamed for. It is a complex measure of conditions influenced little by party or policy or fault assigned. Like daily stockmarket numbers that deal with investor perceived risk in publicly traded companies, it is a measure of churn, not a good measure of the economy. Aside from being the tail of a dog enjoyable to watch with an evening cocktail, I suggest inflation is a measure of the performance of capitalism and most affected by supply, demand, greed, and amoralism of those with a firm grip on capital. Simple in its beauty, able to fit on a label, and keeps us distracted while we feel smuggly all knowing as to our choice of who to blame or why 85% of people get screwed and struggle again to make ends meet and have their angst directed toward some batch of talking head politicians.
There's what one says and then there's what one does. Fiscally conservative should be about balanced budgets, debt reduction, restraint in spending on dubious social experiments, but also caution against unconstrained military spending. I'm obliged to avoid spending what I don't have or my income can't support. I don't see why the same principle shouldn't apply to our government. Personally I don't think there's a disconnect between fiscal responsibility and a socially liberal outlook. One simply shouldn't spend profligately, whether on guns OR butter.
" I always thought of myself as slightly conservative on the fiscal side".
I have always been puzzled why people who considered themselves fiscally "conservative" or "responsible" voted Republican?? A true mystery.
Ronald Reagan, after lying about being a fiscal "conservative" added a massive TWO TRILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT (5.1 Trillion Dollars in todays dollars) during his 8 year gigantically irresponsible spending and tax cutting spree. Same thing with Bush II. GIGANTIC debt PLUS crashing the entire economy.
Same thing with Trump. His corporate tax cut added 4 TRILLION dollars to the National Debt.
Reagan began with a post WWII LOW in total government debt of around 1 Trillion.
Jimmy Carter had previously, for his four years, continued, like all Presidents since WWII in paying down the debt.
In fact, Jimmy Carter was the LAST fiscally responsible and conservative President of the post WWII era. The only other President that even tried to be responsible was Bill Clinton. He left office having turned Repuiblican's upward debt trajectory into a flat graph with very slight downward direction. But, Bush II saw that hint of responsibility immediately began massive debt spending on and off the books to reward Haliburton.
The Republicans and their lies about "cutting taxes will bring in more money to the treasury" are the very definition of IRRESPONSIBLE.
Yet, despite the data, to this day, people use their imagination to tell themselves lies that Republicans are fiscally responsible.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Just google the National Debt and overlay that graph with all Presidents since WW II. Easy to see that Republicans are out of control spenders and highly irresponsible.
But, people will "believe" what they want. Reality seems not to ever intrude on the Republican mind.
Didn't Bill Clinton leave office with a decent economy and a surplus in the budget? Carter, bless him, wasn't the only Dem who paid down the debt.
Yes, Bill Clinton left office with a slight surplus that Bush immediately trashed.
I have amended my post. Thank you.
We don’t talk enough about how OPEC lowered production after Nixon took us off the gold standard. The oil shortages and high price of oil sunk the 70’s economy, and ruined Carter’s re-election campaign.
All recessions in the last over 100 years happened under Republican administrations. Every one. Per JJohnson2u on twitter
These recessions usually follow as if on que when oil prices go to high, and when Republicans hold the office.
KISS. Keep it simple stupid .The original bumper sticker, brought to education. Followed by political affiations like Centrist or Independent or Conservative or Originalist or some other gingoist attribute that says it all and says nothing. My favorite now is Inflation, a measure of economic activity that some think government or Mr Biden should be blamed for. It is a complex measure of conditions influenced little by party or policy or fault assigned. Like daily stockmarket numbers that deal with investor perceived risk in publicly traded companies, it is a measure of churn, not a good measure of the economy. Aside from being the tail of a dog enjoyable to watch with an evening cocktail, I suggest inflation is a measure of the performance of capitalism and most affected by supply, demand, greed, and amoralism of those with a firm grip on capital. Simple in its beauty, able to fit on a label, and keeps us distracted while we feel smuggly all knowing as to our choice of who to blame or why 85% of people get screwed and struggle again to make ends meet and have their angst directed toward some batch of talking head politicians.
There's what one says and then there's what one does. Fiscally conservative should be about balanced budgets, debt reduction, restraint in spending on dubious social experiments, but also caution against unconstrained military spending. I'm obliged to avoid spending what I don't have or my income can't support. I don't see why the same principle shouldn't apply to our government. Personally I don't think there's a disconnect between fiscal responsibility and a socially liberal outlook. One simply shouldn't spend profligately, whether on guns OR butter.