Posted by Mr Vinyl [ 72.144.102.140 ] on May 10, 2006 at 14:12:13:
In Reply to: Re: Yes, you forgot to answer my post... posted by Leland Crooks on May 10, 2006 at 13:24:35:
Let's look at some things here. First the Republicans are always trying to cut taxes. The Democrats are trying to raise taxes. Who do you think has spending more money on their minds? Why do you supposed that the Democrats never cut taxes when they are in office?
Now let's look at a simple fact. Ready for reality? Ok here it is. The President of the United States has almost nothing to do with the economy. WOW! That's hard to believe huh? The better the economy the lower the debt goes. If you think the President does effect the economy, could you please tell me what Clinton did to improve the economy? Or any other President for that matter? There is only one thing that a president can do (with the help of congress) is give tax breaks which has been proven to help under Reagan and Bush. This unfortunately is only a short term solution. The economy goes up and down and there is not much anyone can do about it. If you're lucky to be in office when there is an upturn (AKA Clinton) than you reap the benefits. Keeping in mind that the economy was already on a downturn by the end of Clinton's Presidency. If he did something to improve the economy why didn't it continue?
BTW it's congress that does all the spending. The President only signs or doesn't sign the bills. Who was running congress under Clinton? I don't remember. One could also argue that it was Reagan and Bush Sr. that caused the good economy during the Clinton presidency. I won't.
The problem is everytime the Republicans try to cut or even maintain the spending on anything the Democrats start crying about starving the elderly or not educating our children. So with the help of the liberal media machine they successfully scare off any attempt. Or get it cut back to almost nothing. So what do you do?
Let's make it simple. If your daughter kept running up huge bills on your credit card. What would you do? If she kept promising to stop spending but time and time again she went over the limit. What would you do? You would take the credit card away. Wouldn't you? Or would you keep giving her more money until you were broke?
So what can we do to stop congress from spending our money year after year? The same solution applies - take the money away. Only way to do this is lower taxes revenue to the gov. Republicans have been trying to do this for years through tax cuts. Bush is succeeding. Granted it's not very much. But it's a start.
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