Fiscal Conservative – So I Have Heard…
It doesn’t take much to see what this here comic is trying to say. What I want to know is this… Is this “historical” reference accurate or is there more to the story?
Pardon my interest in a deeper understanding of the info, but I am old enough to know that this country has a habit of creating “information” with very narrow focused data… So tell me Paul Harvey, what’s the REST if the story?
I was talking to my Dad the other day about this, he said that in his upbringing, under presidents like Eisenhower, Republicans were true “fiscal conservatives” and actually cut spending and balanced the budget…Even Reagan, while he had huge deficits, did cut spending and reduce the size of the government…The reason he and Bush I had such large deficits was because of their insistence on huge tax cuts and drastically increasing our military budget…The big problem with Bush II is that he wants to have huge tax cuts for the rich AND increases the size and influence of government AND is spending 10 billion a month in Iraq…All adding up to monstrous deficits and putting this country in a position where we will be bankrupt soon…Regardless of where people fall in terms of their opinion of Bush’s presidency, it can be objectively said I think that he has put this country in a fiscal disaster…And sadly many people will blame the next president for all the major problems and cuts they will have to deal with, when really it was Bush’s fault…Kind of like how Mark Warner had to deal with all Gilmore’s mistakes early in his time as Governor…Oh well, we’ll see what happens I guess 🙂 that’s my 2 cents