XPost: alt.society.liberalism, alt.atheism, talk.politics.guns   
   From: burns.87@osu.edu   
      
   On 5/18/2013 10:33 AM, linuxgal wrote:   
   > Free Lunch wrote:   
      
   >> Republicans have been building   
   >> deficits into the system for 30 years, but that's only okay if   
   >> they run the show. When someone else is trying to clean up their   
   >> mess they whine about how the Dem is running a deficit.   
   >   
   > For the record, I was extremely pissed off when W racked up   
   > 4.3 trillion dollars in new debt.   
      
   Did you say anything about it at the time? You know, the way   
   that you're complaining about Obama?   
      
   I checked Google Groups for linuxgal mentioning debt, and   
   the earliest occurrence I found was for March 17, 2012.   
   Can you point to some examples of you complaining at the time?   
      
   I haven't put much effort into this, but it looks to   
   me as though Free Lunch has it exactly right.   
   You are only whining about the debt now that a   
   Democrat is in office. Am I wrong? Can you show that?   
      
   Beating the dead horse a little more, the pattern has been:   
   US debt goes up when we have wars and recessions/depressions,   
   and then it gets paid down again, until the next   
   war/recession/depression, EXCEPT FOR under recent "conservative"   
   Republican presidents, RWR, GHWB and GWB.   
      
   (David Stockman, Reagan's budget director, plainly called it   
   a Trojan horse designed to convince voters we *had to* cut   
   social programs. So, there should not be any surprise   
   to that.)   
      
   If you really care about US debt, and not just getting a   
   Republican into the Whitehouse, the solution is easy:   
   vote Democratic.   
      
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