RetiredGySgt
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I'm not that much of an Obama worshipper -- I supported Clinton.
But I do get a bit jaded to see an author who was the Chair of Bush's Econ Council ranking on Obama about projected deficits during a time of the worst recession since wWII.
Where was Mr. Boskin squawking about deficits while the Govt he advised and was part of ran up $1/2 trillion deficits year after year after year? And at a time when the economy was doing fine?
I'm happy to see that people are finally focusing on deficits now that the Govt is $11 trillion in debt.
However, Mr. Boskin's -- and conservatives like him -- objections about the deficit would have a lot more persuasive authority if they didn't carry the stink of hypocricy with them.
He worked with HW not GW - c'mon people - know your damn presidents!
HW was the one who raised taxes...
Yeah, once he realized he had to try to get Reagan's spending spree under control, Bush 41 had to renege on his famous "read my lips" pledge. Poor guy paid for Ronnie's follies by losing reelection.
Might want to review your facts. Reagan never went on a spending spree. Check it out, NONE of his Budgets were ever approved, the Democrats that controlled Congress INCREASED them.
In fact leaders of the Democrats in Congress STATED for the Record that IF Reagan insisted on an increase in Military spending they would see to it that twice what he got for an increase would be put into social programs. And that is what they did.