Picky, picky, picky... Adak, this was your challenge was:
Quote:
Now your turn. Name spending cuts
(not FUTURE spending cuts that probably will never materialize,
but ACTUAL NOW spending cuts),
that Obama and the Democrats have supported.
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I did that...
Re the debt ceiling... Your counting of D- and R- years as % is a silly argument.
Your way of looking at the graph is that the debt ceiling
stayed constant
only 1 year under Bush Sr and 5 years under Clinton.
Wow ! that's a 500% better record for the D-'s than the R-'s !!!
The real point of the graph is that
recent increases in the
debt ceiling are not the province of Obama or the Democrats only.
Looking a the "steps", it appears to me that the debt ceiling has
been increased
every year but 6 since the first Bush,
and you remember what the R-'s did to him.
OHTH Carter gave Reagan an enormous
surplus, and Reagan
squandered it away during his 8-year term on his 600-ship Navy.
The debt ceiling even had to be raised to accommodate that.
I can accept that both D- and R- presidents have raised the debt ceiling.
Can you ?