re: #232 engineer dog

and when ronald reagan put us in a worse financial situation than we are in now, republicans didn’t yell and scream about a crisis, and, in the event, nothing really bad happened

so be consistent, please

the percentage of debt relative to gdp is an interesting number, but it is the debt service that we pay for. i don’t know of any time in recent american history that the total debt has been paid down one penny - the only time this has been even discussed was after bill clinton’s tax increases helped to put us in a position to think about it

I don’t remember being around here during reagan but you’re argument isn’t holding water. Right now our debt is 50% higher (as a percentage of GDP) than under reagan. If people were mildly upset during reagan then they should be very upset right around now. I do seem to recall dems hammering reagan about the deficit, now who isn’t being consistent?