You act like you actually think republicans are fiscal conservatives. During the last 20 years, republicans have outspent democrats by a considerable margin, much of this spending has been on their (in my opinion) pointless military conquests in the middle east and elsewhere. I have yet to see real factual evidence to suggest we have more freedom or security from our often hypocritical meddling in foreign affairs. We put saddam and bin laden there ourselves in the 80's, and 20 years later we waste billions more to remove them. What was accomplished? Seems to me we are the reason for middle east instability.. and for what reason? Well that is becoming more obvious by the day as "anti Semitism" continues to rise globally and the lies and misinformation of the "neoconservatives" within our government becomes more known.
Even at the state level, our former governor Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin was loved and praised despite his massive spending he was able to get away with because the economy was growing. Now doyle, despite his screaming liberal bias on many issues (such as vetoing a bill to require a photo ID when voting... shows you where he gets his votes from), is managing to keep our fiscal situation in check pretty well all things considering.
At the same time, the democrats have no interest in fiscal conservatism either. They'll spend money on one entitlement program after another, encouraging the lazy to stay lazy and not get jobs, while undermining the hard qualified workers in favor of the less qualified minority worker. They'll continue to give the power to the trial lawyers who sue companies into leaving this country. Bill Clinton's spending, although not as extreme as Reagan's and Bush's, was excessive and he should have been using the boom of the 90's to more aggressively pay down debt. Much of his spending was masked by him removing money from the Social Security Trust Fund as well… we remained in a deficit for every year except 2000, which we broke even. Both parties estimates on paying down the deficit were based on completely unsustainable economic growth levels showing how little they know about economics or how stupid they think we are, one of the two.
Neither party has any interest in reducing spending, rather they collude to make sure any third party doesn't mess up their fun (campaign finance reform) Sure they bicker back and forth about petty issues, but in the end this bickering is meaningless. In the end, I don't believe the politicians have any clue as to how the federal reserve operates, and how debt effects economic growth in the long run. They are good storytellers and spinmeisters, but that's about it, and only think short term. This is part of the reason we are in such a dire situation now… see the chart in my signature. Our debt to GDP ratio is at historic levels, and only hyperinflation or a depression will help us now. Reckless government begets reckless individuals and corporations leveraging themselves beyond help.
