And if they spend we vote them out. Make this irresponsible spending political suicide. Heck we might get some independents.Right now it’s all repub and increasing dramatically. Time to vote them out.No, that's not all you have done. You've specifically given credit to Democrat presidents for lowering the deficit, while ignoring both the special circumstances (including the incredibly massive increase in the deficit) which occurred during the Obama administration and the fact that Congress is who actually creates the budgets.
You have clearly tried to present Democrats as more fiscally responsible and interested in lowering deficits, unlike Republicans.
As if Obama's recovery spending wasn't a
"Special circumstance".
History shows quite clearly that Dem presidents have worked to cut spending. Republican presidents have not.
Of course the spending was a special circumstance. The entire situation was unusual, which is the point.
That deficits were lowered while Dem presidents were in office does not, by itself, indicate those presidents worked to cut spending. Did Clinton propose the budgets that Congress adopted? Did Obama? For that matter, did the Republican presidents propose the budgets adopted while deficits went up?
And how about this question: When Dems have controlled both the presidency and Congress, has the deficit gone down? How about Reps? From what I've seen, the deficit has both gone up and down when either party controls both the executive and legislature. 2004-2005 the Republicans had control of both houses and the presidency, and the deficit went down. 1993-1994, the same was true with Democrats in control. Then again in 2009-2010 for Democrats, although again, that's going down from the largest deficit in history by a wide margin.
Each party has had instances of control where the deficit went up, as well.
History has show the deficit decreasing and, much more often, increasing under both Dem and Rep presidents and Congresses.
Perhaps Dem presidents have pushed to cut spending more often, but simply showing the deficit numbers certainly does not prove that, or even particularly indicate it.
I'd be more happy with that idea if it weren't just going to be more Dems getting voted in.
I'm not going to hold my breath for that.
It would be nice, though!