Abracadabra Founding Member
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| Subject: Truth About Deficit-Who To Blame Sun 15 Jul 2012, 6:08 am | |
| Democrat or Republican president doesn't matter but the president can and does influence bills/laws & polices by applying pressure to members of congress . When Congress is controlled by the GOP the deficits fall. When it's split or controlled by the Democrats it increases. Oh, and the reason that graph only goes back to 1994? Because Congress was always split (and deficits pretty much always increasing) until we go back 55 years to the Eisenhower Administration. And when we find the one session of Congress that was under GOP control, we also find the Federal debt dropping. No deficit, a surplus.
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