My recent college graduate/indoctrinated son has been giving me those very talking points...where were the tea party members during Bush’s spending spree?
Well, as shown by graphs on this site as well as a number of others (eg Instapundit),you could show him that Bush’s “spending spree” pales in comparison to what is going on now.
Answer:
1. Democrats have controlled Congress since January 2007. They were in control for the last two years of the Bush Presidency. They did not rein in spending, but added to every budget bill proposed by Bush.
Remember when the Lefties were apoplectic about Bush’s last deficit of $ 400 billion dollars? Why are the lefties silent about a $ 1.6 trillion deficit, which is FOUR times as much?
2. A $ 400 billion deficit in one year is not good, but sustainable.
A $ 1.6 trillion deficit, on top of a boondoggle $ 857 billion “stimulus” bill which was nothing but a payoff to Blue states and urban centers for useless projects, along with a takeover of the auto industry and the banks through TARP, administered by Obama, along with a string of deficits totalling $ 10 TRILLION over the next 10 years is
NOT SUSTAINABLE.
3. The past is past. Your son will be a serf working for the Chinese the rest of his life thanks to this ruinous financial policy.
How he started his Chinese language classes yet?
One TP critic put it this way: "...They said nothing and did nothing while Bush and the Republican Congress were getting the country into deeper and deeper trouble. The conservatives...did nothing...when the balanced budget was destroyed,...when Bush exploded the deficit, ... when Bush cut taxes instead of raising them to pay for the war he started."
And when the election of 2006 came, the conservatives...did nothing (in quiet protest) and allowed the Dems to take control. They had been betrayed. Now the conservatives are so over everything, they are taking to the streets in the form of Tea Parties, in not so quiet protest.