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| Subject: Re: Facts are stubborn things | Date: 11/30/2012 3:24 PM | |
| Author: MadCapitalist | Number: 1841249 of 1878667 | |
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MC Why do you insist on *only* focusing on the President? Congress votes the spending into law, not the President. Perhaps because Reagan is a little different from Carter while the Congress in 1981 was much the same as the Congress in 1980. But I'm asking an open-ended question. What changed dramatically in 1981? Government Receipts and Expenditures as a Fraction of GDP http://www.deptofnumbers.com/misc/debt-revenue-and-expenditu...... http://federal-budget.findthedata.org/l/84/1981 Peter It's irrelevant. The fact remains that many Democrats voted for huge deficits, so giving them a free pass is asinine. Why did Democrats suddenly decide to vote for even more spending than they had in the past? Beats me. |
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