>>>>>>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.
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>How would you explain this ?
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>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
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>I can't find any evidence here that Ronald Reagan was a financial conservative. He did increate the national debt quite a bit.

Ronald Reagan cut taxes, the democrats increased spending, after promising not to. Reagan started the good economy that not even Bill Clinton could stop (he was also helped by the Republican tax cuts). The war and two years of democrat rule in both houses, and all those earmarks from both parties, coupled with Obama and his friends who were in control of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (dang near bankrupting both) are the reason we have a problem today. I put most of the blame on the dems like Barney Frank and Harry Reid, because they wouldn't listen in 2003 when many republicans sounded the warning. Those two, and many other dems are discgraceful.