Are Republicans Responsible for our Soaring National Debt?

I chose that Republicans did not cause the massive debt we see today, because today, the Democrats have continued to worsen our initial debt to levels never seen before in U.S. history. Both stand as guilty but the Democrats have not corrected but have worsened our debt.

lol really? what would you have them do? let the banks fail and totally collapse the back bone of america? or let americans starve because of no jobs!? while the repubs ran this country into ruin, they didnot feel the pinch like the average american! because there rich !!!!! doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out what needed to be done to restructure america. jesus christ ! its gonna take decades to rebound from the republicans greed and failure. just my opinion.

Great Reply Post Mark!

I'm an American not starving and jobless... And in the working class. What is your point?

They do most of the big spending and wait for the dems to get in office and blame them. Just like they are doing now.

This Republican is embarrassed to admit that the current dilemma began with the Bush tax cuts combined with 2 unfunded wars, but I can honestly say I didn't vote for him. Fundamentalist Christians are dangerous: “At a 1971 dinner, Reagan told California legislator James Mills that ‘everything is in place for the battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ.’ The President has permitted Jerry Falwell to attend National Security Council briefings and author and Armageddon-advocate Hal Lindsey to give a talk on nuclear war with Russia to top Pentagon strategists.” “Grace Halsell’s Prophecy and Politics: Militant Evangelists on the Road to Nuclear War,” by E. Johnson in Journal of Historical Review (Winter 1986).

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From the end of WW2 in 1946 until 1981 every administration managed to reduce the debt to GDP by an average of 2 1/2% every year to 31.82%.
From 1982 until 1995 Ronald Reagans supply side economics added 34.54% to 66.36%.
Between 1996 and 2001 the Clinton administration reduced the debt by 10.27% to 56.09%.
Between 2002 and 2009 George W. Bush's policies, still ongoing, added 29.11% to 85.2%.
With Bush's stimulus spilling over into the Obama administration the debt now stands at 105.32% of GDP.
Altogether only two administrations since WW2, Reagan and Bush2, were responsible for an increase in the debt to GDP of 63.65% to 85.2%.
How much has been added due to Obama's policies is debatable but the fact is that his decisions kept us out of another Great Depression.
The debt to GDP now stands at 105.32% of GDP. If anyone thinks that this recession would be ended at no cost is living in fantasyland.

Both sides are. You can't spend and not take taxes in to pay for something we can't afford. Tax breaks for the rich. [Stupid] Foreign Aid where the money goes for the UN and guns. [Stupider] Then let the middleclass die. {Mindboggling]

Tax cuts account for exactly ZERO debt. Spending is the only way to increase debt - something both Republicans and Democrats love to do.

How would you propose that we pay for the wars that went unfunded during the Bush years?

Where were the deficit hawk republicans back when Bush was spending like a drunken sailor with two ongoing wars, the unfunded medicare part D, the Wall St. bailouts and all the while cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans?

They can't seem to comprehend that unlike his predecessor this president had to spend like he did to in order prevent our economy from spiraling down the toilet towards a full blown depression.

Amen

Are they totally responsible, no. They had plenty of help also.
But to continue to beat the drum about Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility is completely laughable.

$6 Trillion added in three and a half years by Obama, the answer is obvious to anyone except an ignorant fool who can somehow still blame Republicans, I guess that there are lots of them out there, they're the ones that plan to vote for Obama.

Did you read what Q had to say?

Are Repubs responsible for the soaring Debt, I can read.

seriously? How about his cartoon?

It's just that, a cartoon.

Reagan and GW Bush are the two worst cases of phony conservatism. For a party that prides itself on fiscal responsibility, strange that one has to go all the way back to Eisenhower to find a republican president who submitted a balanced budget. Sad. They should not be allowed to call themselves fiscally conservative as they are the opposite.

agree

We all have to remember that Democrats are NEVER to blame for anything that goes wrong, it's all part of their built in natural defense. ALWAYS blame someone else, never act like that old fool Harry Truman and make stupid comments, like " The Buck Stops Here " ! Follow the Liberal leader and present POTUS and blame Bush, blame the Republican party, anything but yourself.

I AGREE IT IS BUSH'S FAULT.

... but of course it is, God knows your Messiah has never made a mistake in the past 4 years.

The only mistake he made was trying to work with Republicans. The sour grapes party!
The party that hopes the economy fails so they can be swept in again to do it all over.

NO THANKS!

... but of course, your Messiah wants everything his way or nothing ! This way he can blame congress by not compromising !

I agree .. NO THANKS !

And that is why I would not vote another rep in.

But they can take a big portion of it.

Bush, Reagan and Bush, all you need to know.

Shocking! I'm sure re-pugs will have another excuse for that as well!

Thanks for the informative post, explains the facts, something you don't get from the GOP candidates.

I think Bill Clinton stated why he left a surplus & republicans leave deficits is Arithmetic.

Great response thanks for the data.

You did a better job then this post! Thanks!

Trillions in tax cuts for the rich which were never paid for and trillions of dollars for unnecessary wars, republicans are to be blames. Obama is responsible for less than 0.8 trillions of the 14 trillion dollar debt.

P.S. So are Democrats.

If it's inside the Beltway and works in a white building, it's probably responsible.

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