>>>>>Just scrapping by with $200K are you? Working on your autobiography?
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>>>>>When you are getting close to 60 and planning for retirement, it isn't. When you have kids you are trying to put through college it isn't.
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>>>>I suppose that is one way to look at it.
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>>>>Another way is that sometimes when you spend a lot, you have a lot less than what you started with. But it doesn't change the fact that you started out with a statistically above average amount.
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>>>My dad used to tell me, "it ain't how much you make, it's how much you keep". How true, if you spend your money like a drunken democrat, you'll be out of money, and wanting to spread other people's wealth around yourself.
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>>Given the last 8 years, shouldn't that be "spend your money like a republican without a brain"? Bush spend much more money than any president before. And he was supposed to be a "fiscal conservative". It really is beyond me that such myths still are going arround while the evidence clearly is the opposite.
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>>Wake up John.
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>Uh, I think there was a war, and the Ds have been in control for 2 years. Otherwise, I agree. The Rs lost their way. They have been trying to become Ds. Our party needs to turn back to the principles of Ronald Reagan. Once that happens, we'll win.

How would you explain this ?

http://zfacts.com/metaPage/lib/National-Debt-GDP-L.gif
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms
http://www.lafn.org/gvdc/Natl_Debt_Chart.html
http://www.cedarcomm.com/~stevelm1/usdebt.htm

I can't find any evidence here that Ronald Reagan was a financial conservative. He did increate the national debt quite a bit.