re: #244 drcordell

Entitlements? Seriously? Where do you get your facts? Here is a graph of the national debt since the Great Depression. Notice the huge uptick in debt during the Bush/Reagan years. You think that Reagan borrowed all that money to spend on entitlements? The man gutted entitlements while doubling the debt.

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Nice chart. Is this an unbiased source? At first blush it seems so but I’m not so sure. When you say ‘gutted’ does that mean all existing entitlement programs were actually forced to spend less than they had spent in previous years? Or does that mean that they had to make do with smaller rates of growth?