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Sorry Beau, “as bad as the dems” is just a narrative you use to ignore reality. As Chomsky points out republicans are worse. They not only cause higher deficits but they do it as they rail against deficits. And during the Obama administration they fought to keep the deficit higher. an example would be they fought with President Obama to keep the Bush tax cuts from expiring as scheduled and expiring as re-scheduled for the top 2 %. It was “about” the deficit when they attacked the stimulus, auto bailout, jobs bill (things that did or would help the economy) but not the Bush tax cuts.
Continue to vote republican but just do it knowing that their “concern” for deficits is just another lying narrative and they make it worse.
Good thing this event hasn't happened very long ago as I easily remember the Dems and the Obama admin wanted to spend so much more than what we did. The Republicans fought over spending which resulted in sequestration, which ultimately kept the deficit down a little bit. Regardless, the debt still doubled during his time. In a sense, you could even say that the Obama admin was twice as bad as Bush because he added almost 10 trillion vs Bush's 5 trillion.