On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Maureen wrote: ... > ...every Democratic president (Kennedy-Johnson, Carter, and Clinton) > left office with the ratio of national debt to income below where it > was at the beginning of his administration, while the last three > Republican administrations (Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. > Bush) have presided over explosive growth of the national debt > relative to national income. Since 1960, Republican administrations > have added 38 percentage points to the national debt/GDP ratio, while > Democratic administrations have subtracted 23 percentage points from > that ratio..
Is this true? I mean, you're not making this up, right? Hey, "Republicans and Democrats are the same" type folks (or even better, "Republicans will solve our fiscal problem" folk)-- what's your take on this? :Den -- He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328450 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm