It might have been true once, I don’t know, but for as long as I’ve been paying attention they have been fiscally irresponsible and have the track record to show for it.
The joke is that Democrats say it. Straight back to the Reagan Era, we had Tip O’Neil and Ted Kennedy compromising with these fuckers in order to shave away chunk after chunk of the New Deal / Great Society programs. Carter, Clinton, Obama, and Biden all played Compromiser to the intransigence of ultra-orthodox fiscal conservatives. And each new administration brought with it a new landmine for the American economy to trip over, setting off another ugly recession and new wave of poverty.
Anyone who says republicans are fiscally responsible should be laughed out of the room
If a republican is talking they are lying.
Wasn’t that also true before though?
It might have been true once, I don’t know, but for as long as I’ve been paying attention they have been fiscally irresponsible and have the track record to show for it.
Yet still so many insist on voting for them for the “economy”.
The joke is that Democrats say it. Straight back to the Reagan Era, we had Tip O’Neil and Ted Kennedy compromising with these fuckers in order to shave away chunk after chunk of the New Deal / Great Society programs. Carter, Clinton, Obama, and Biden all played Compromiser to the intransigence of ultra-orthodox fiscal conservatives. And each new administration brought with it a new landmine for the American economy to trip over, setting off another ugly recession and new wave of poverty.