Do you feel doubling the national debt was conservative?
2007-10-03 17:13:51 · 13 answers · asked by Zardoz 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
www.publicdebt.treas.gov
2007-10-03 17:27:25 · update #1
What makes it worse, and get this! The Republicans are running on "fiscal Responsibility" and "Smaller Government, claiming Democrats are "Tax and Spend"!
Look at this and you will see the Republicans have always been the spenders, just not on the poor!
http://www.uuforum.org/deficit.htm
One-For.
This answer is not accurate
"We are at war.
The debt has grown in every single war in our history."
Review the above chart. Look at Johnson's numbers and he had Vietnam. All of that is irrelevant anyway, Bush's WAR DEBT ISN'T COUNTED IN THE DEFICIT!.
2007-10-03 17:22:59 · answer #1 · answered by cantcu 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. But if you are thinking that George H.W. Bush, or his son, are conservatives, you are wrong. They are NEO-conservatives, which is the most unconservative political theory in the world in much the same way that Obama is not a liberal but a NEO- liberal, which is not liberalism at all either. True conservatives are very compassionate because we believe in freedom, liberty, sovereignty, and the basic rights of all people to live peaceful, free, and independent lives. Liberals want to tax me and take my property to correct some perceived wrong that had nothing to do with me in the first place. Liberals want to use government as a confiscatory power to redistribute wealth, which is nothing more than legal extortion. Remember, almost every conflict America has gotten in since the Civil War has been prosecuted by a Democratic president. WWI -Woodrow Wilson, Dem., WWII - Roosevelt, Dem., Korean War, Truman, Dem., Viet Nam, Kennedy/ Johnson, Dems. Who ended Vietnam? Nixon, Repub. Bush started our current wars but Obama, who ran on an anti-war campaign, is escalating these conflicts and threatening Iran. So, you tell me, who seems more compassionate?
2016-05-20 06:07:42 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sure does feel like right now.
But on the other hand "Liberal Democrat" just seems plain moronic.
Everybody wants to talk about what the war costs and then we try to rebuild New Orleans in the middle of the same swamp that just got flooded.
2007-10-03 17:25:33 · answer #3 · answered by CFB 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, only because I consider myself a 'Conservative Democrat'.
2007-10-03 17:52:50 · answer #4 · answered by PeachJello 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I cannot tell if you are trying to be witty... or if you are just dumb.
If you are on a political blog and do not know the difference, I suggest you do some reading.
Or you could even Email Chi, I am sure you would except his definitions more than mine, since you are obviously to bias to understand.
2007-10-03 17:19:27 · answer #5 · answered by Dina W 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Just remember, while Clinton sat in his oval office watching the treasury build off of internet-boom tax revenue and huge cuts in military and intelligence, Osama Bin Laden and a bunch of Al Quaida members were planning and training to execute 9/11/01.
Ouch. History hurts sometimes, huh?
2007-10-03 17:19:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Only if you feel Liberal Democrat is an oxymoron.
2007-10-03 17:19:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
No, its just a moron ...I just had to say that! it was there....The conservative republican that is not the phrase...
2007-10-03 17:25:01 · answer #8 · answered by deanna b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope not an oxymoron but getting rarer........
2007-10-03 17:17:24 · answer #9 · answered by Brian 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Republicans are NOT fiscal Conservatives.
Their debts and wreckless spending is the worst in the history of Planet Earth.
At least with Bill Clinton we had a BUDGET SURPLUS. Bush didn't like that, so he gave his rich friends a big tax cut....then we went right back to deficits.
2007-10-03 17:17:18 · answer #10 · answered by Villain 6 · 3⤊ 7⤋