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Originally Posted by aceventura3
The most obvious question: Given Bush has no discipline when it comes to spending why hasn't Congress done something to bring this obscene level of fiscal irresponsibility under control?
And the follow-up: Why is one branch of our Federal government given the responsibility for the mess when it seems like at least two branches are at fault?
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Absolutely, both the White House and Congress are to blame for the $4+ TRILLION rise in the debt in the last six years...during which time, the Congress was under Republican control and Bush never vetoed one spending bill.
Clinton and a Republican Congress demonstrated how it can be done....balancing the budget in his last two years in office and paying down the debt through a "pay as you go" approach.
Bush would also need to recognize that tax cuts to the top 2% and trickle down economics is in fact, voodoo economics (as George HW Bush rightly noted).