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ecib · 4439 days ago · link · · parent · post: Libertarians: Only now, at the end, do you understand...
I also want my civil liberties first.
But on the fiscal side, every single Republican president since the mid seventies has grown the deficit as a percentage of our GDP. Every single Democratic president over the same period has shrank the deficit as a percentage of our GDP, with the only exception being Obama who was coming right off the stimulus initiated by Bush. I have to laugh a little when Conservatives argue that they are the party of fiscal restraint. That being said, there's always room for improvement and efficiencies, and just because the deficit as a percentage of GPD shrinks under Democrats, it doesn't mean it shrinks enough, or in the right ways. But again, -civil liberties please. PLEASE.