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As one of the 'New Democrats', I feel like Republicans have somehow missed the last 15 years, where Democrats were responsible for getting a million people off the welfare rolls, reduced the size of the federal government, and was making the first concrete steps in a generation to pay down our, repeat OUR, national debt.
I'm not too much of a social issue kind of guy, what I care about is having our government surplus of 4.5 Trillion go to a defecit of 2.9 Trillian in just 2.5 years.
Conservatives say that they like a smaller federal government? Well guess what, Clinton managed to whittle it down to 18.5 percent of GDP. And now guess what Bush has done... increased it back up to 19.5. He'll have it back up past twenty and to Reagan-era levels pretty quickly at this rate.
A lot of americans can lull themselves into thinking this isn't going to bite them in the ass because interest rates are so low right now, but as soon as the economy picks back up, your mortgage rates, your loan payments, etc are going to balloon.
And what are the so-called conservatives (i can't really call them fiscal conservatives, now can i?) doing about it? Nothing, nothing at all (except blaming it on 'libs' and 'dems', lol)....
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