I'm not partial to either party when it comes to blame. Just because Dems have been in control the majority of the time doesn't mean that the Repubs are blameless ...... a serious discussion about the facts would also show just how hard the Repubs fought against the policies that have brought this country to their needs. Check the voting records to see how many Repubs went along with the Dems who were in power.
So, I blame anyone of either party, regardless of which was in power ....that voted, sponsored, or supported the ungodly spending programs we have now.
I do appreciate your attempt to get the facts out there.....perhaps you can show the vote breakdowns.
You're welcomed, if you noticed I never said that the Republicans are blamless
Where shall we begin on the vote numbers? Starting with welfare? Public housing? free money give aways to those who will not work? Social Security and who first took the money and used it for something else?
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Forgot to mention about grants to groups like ACORN, who voted to give them money?
president reagan FIRST took the SS surplus and USED IT to balance his budget, then came bush 1 then came clinton, then came bush 2...all using it to balance the budget...Obama is the only president since Reagan to not use SS surpluses to balance his budget, because THERE ARE NO MORE SURPLUSES to use to balance the budget.
Johnson added the social security to the national budget, NOT TO USE IT for other things that income tax should pay for, but to incorporate SS in to the budget so he could HIDE the percentage of the budget that was being spent on the Viet Nam war....
We did NOT have surpluses in any nominal amounts during Johnson because we were "pay as you go" back then and the SS tax had not been doubled on us yet, so that there were no surpluses of SS to use....like I said it was Reagan in 1983 that did this...
Reagan gave us a 100% tax increase ON OUR SOCIAL SECURITY...it went from 3% tax for us to +/-6% tax for us UNDER REAGAN.