What's conservative about doubling the National Debt?

Question

In seven years Bush and the Republican controlled Congress have doubled the National Debt. It's now over nine trillion dollars and increasing 1.4 billion dollars per day. How is this conservative?

http://brillig.com/debt_clock/

vincefoster- The war cost one trillion dollars. What happened to the other three trillion?

http://brillig.com/debt_clock/faq.html

Answer 1

Nothing. I'm conservative and Bush is absolutely not. Doubling the debt, nation building and interventionism, interjecting the Christian doctrine into government, etc., are NOT conservative tenets. Bush is a fake.

Answer 2

The conservative congress did no longer double the debt they extra advantageous it by utilising one hundred%; while the republicans stole the congress in 2001 and white residing house there became NO nationwide debt. The Clinton administration left a nationwide Surplus. do no longer you think of the conservatives owe something of this united states a reimbursement plan from their own wallet? in line with threat from the swiss financial enterprise bills of their acquaintances in intense places like Brown & Root, Haliburton, Blackwater, Hunt Oil, etc. ought to those agencies be asked to pay down the nationwide debt to 0?

Answer 3

Supply-side economics has always, in practice, been about increasing the supply of debt. It's just Keynesian economics by another name with tax cuts taking misplaced credit for any economic growth the debt produces.

Answer 4

As a percentage of GDP our national debt is lowest in 20 years.

Seven years ago I increased my earnings. Then I bought a house which put me 15 times more in debt than I was previously. I did not start the liberal technique of hand wringing. I decided to keep on keeping on and I'm not dead or bankrupt yet

Answer 5

Because having to pay more of our money to China in interest, creates a situation where less is available for social programs to spend on Americans and Social Security. In a sick sort of anti-American way, I guess that could be considered...conservative.

but that is only if you consider Bush a conservative, which most people do not. Bush is a nixonian or neocon.

Answer 6

b-but the repubes 'say' they are conservative.

there is nothing funnier in the world than a repube member of congress using the term 'tax and spend' when talking about the other party.

what part of wasting $12 billion a month in iraq is conservative?

and how sick is it that the president (BACKED BY THE SIMPERING REPUBES IN CONGRESS) then tell little american kids that they can't afford to give them health insurance.

but hey, they're against gay marriage, so the insane repube base buys their crap.

Answer 7

Your right it's not...you may pick up your liberal president at the end of his term.


BTW...He didn't vote the spending, he only proposed it...There is room for blame all over congress too. Congress is no longer republican controlled, hasn't been for some time now.

Answer 8

my dad is the coolest president ever and you know it

he's just the best so if he spent it we needed it

the debt is because of the debtocrats

Answer 9

Also, what is conservative about spending more money than you take in? What is conservative about invading another country?

Answer 10

In case you haven't noticed, we are at war and war is expensive. Allowing ourselves to be attacked by muslim nutbuckets and losing the war with them would cost more,
so, Kwitcherbellyakin!