UsaSatsui wrote:

Hacker wrote: ---------------------- "We want a name that suggests we're out to give the Democrats a good fight," he said. "So far what we've come up with is the Donkey Punchers." -------------------------------------- ...This statement makes a part of me think it's a fake Really? Wikipedia wrote: Andy Borowitz (born January 4, 1958) is a comedian and satirist...

That is kind of funny, but onto the serious side of this. Government overspending is nothing new. I hate how people think that government spending a lot of money is all of a sudden the fault of the Democrats. Bush was one of the big proponents of the $700 billion bailout back in 2008. Republicans can overspend too.

The only Republican president in my lifetime who really got it about less government and less spending was Reagan, and he overspent too. So I'm puzzled as to how a party that runs on the general idea of less government/less spending managed to approve a $700 billion bailout that the president approved of, especially when the companies that received bailout funds didn't do shit but pay their executives huge bonuses and cover golden parachutes for said execs. This of course is not the fault of the Democrats or Republicans but the greedy ass motherfuckers on Wall Street. Still though government should have seen that coming when they voted on the bailout.

Also wasn't it Clinton who managed to balance the budget during his presidency? Granted at that time there was no major war or recession so spending wouldn't be as high. Still though when the Republicans are generally for less government overall they end up spending all this money and then blame the Democrats. That to me is pretty ignorant.

I hate how these tea parties have degenerated into a "the Democrats are to blame" situation when it really is about both parties. Taxes went up with the cost of the war, with the cost of Obama's stimulus/health plan and so on. Government will overspend regardless of who is in office or what party has majority control.