What's conservative about doubling the national debt?

Question

The republican controlled congress doubled the national debt, much of it being held by communist China. What is conservative about burdening our children and grandchildren with debt?

Answer 1

Good question. There is NOTHING Conservative about Bush at all..he is more liberal than most LIBERALS!

The truth be told, the only Candidate which comes close to being a Conservative is Ron Paul...a REAL Conservative that is...not the neocons which have taken over their party!

Answer 2

The conservative congress did not double the debt they increased it by 100%; when the republicans stole the congress in 2001 and white house there was NO national debt. The Clinton administration left a National Surplus.

Don't you think the conservatives owe the rest of this nation a repayment plan from their own pockets? Perhaps from the swiss bank accounts of their friends in high places like Brown & Root, Haliburton, Blackwater, Hunt Oil, etc. should those companies be asked to pay down the national debt to zero?

Answer 3

Nothing and there is not much that is truly conservative in a fiscal or size of government sense about the republican party and hasn't been since the days of Barry Goldwater. When the republicans gained control of Congress they became more corrupt and more fiscally irresponsible in 10 years than the democrats had been in 40 years of control. Remember the "Contract With America"? The reneged on that as soon as they got a taste of the power of being in the majority.

Answer 4

Being professional Conservative skill you like worldwide Bankers to have extra money, extra effective income. we will not even have adequate money the interest fee on each and all the money Bush has borrowed. What must be extra professional Conservative than that.

Answer 5

And then after being criticized the President for not vetoing a single spending bill, Bush finally did veto one and it'd for health insurance for poor children. Sheesh!

Answer 6

Absolutely nothin and how is government intrusion in every aspect of our lives conservative Bush is a **** and should be voted out from both sides of the aisle

Answer 7

the budget deficit was zero. in fact we had a surplus. i think the national debt was about $5 trillion when clinton left office.

Answer 8

First, for those of you who are so misinformed as to think that Clinton wiped out the debt...look up the difference between debt and deficit. Clinton (kind of) got rid of the DEFICIT not the DEBT. By kind of I mean that he manipulated numbers by using funds from social security, so it was never truly balanced.

Now as for this question...you are right. Bush and a few of the republicans in Congress did not have conservative values in mind when it comes to spending. Add the fact that Bush is fighting the Iraq war like a pu$$y liberal and his liberal (in line with Kennedy) stance on illegal immigration, and there is something that democrats would HATE to admit.

BUSH HAS BECOME A LIBERAL!!!

Answer 9

It's certainly Conservative, but it isn't Responsible.

The notion that conservatives are in any way fiscally responsible is belied by the fact that no Republican president in the last fifty years has even submitted a balanced budget to congress.

Answer 10

And so your answer to this dilemma is? It must be either to eliminate military spending (very not Conservative, incidentally), eliminate social spending (very Conservative, by any measure--but brings the entitlement people rushing for our heads), continue to rob the SS trust (when will we Gen-Xer's start raising hell about this?), raise taxes (definitely not Conservative)...

Propose a solution. This line of "questioning" is simply akin to shooting fish in a barrel.