Obama has cut spending, had to deal with Bush’s mess, does not have the SS surplus that Reagan, Bush and Bush used to hide much of their record deficits and much of Obama’s deficit is the caused by the shortage in the SS fund. Then Obama has had to deal with Republicans’ promise to screw up everything until we get rid of the Black President.
So get this through your heads. The Republicans are the one who waste money, they increase welfare (much of it is for the rich) and even with their record tax increases they set record deficits.
Good lord, why would you vote for a Republican?
Spending has decreased from Obama's all time high record budget deficits because 5-6 years later the overseas conflicts have seen a reduction in troop allocations. And to illustrate a point, yes Bush was the type of neocon republican that campaigned on having a restrained foreign policy but who governed like an imperialist. He's the type of republican the OP would say other republicans refer to as a RINO. A RINO is someone who fools the party base into thinking they have conservative (fiscal) roots and then governs like a democrat. This is where the modern Tea Party came from: at the time a disgust by both republicans and democrats fed up w/ outrageous federal spending. However, since religious and social issues were injected into the TP and Fox and their buddy radio hosts hijacked it in many ways, they were able to spread division and liberals did their job of making their own hate the TP as some group the Koch brothers funds to screw over poor people. I'm more of the Liberty Movement type as that's unplugged from religious baggage and focuses solely on the Constitution and foreign non-intervention. Both the LM and TP are united when it comes to taking down RINOs who are fully backed by all the main corporatist interests that progressives claim to hate yet confuse the situation and actually prefer the RINOs to those in their party who are trying to shed the Bush-Cheney mantle piece. Weird.
In reality, cutting government spending w/ a meat hook and getting to resemble some semblance of Constitutionality would create opportunities across the board for everyone. Welfare programs, as an example, do nothing besides lock someone into a lifetime of dependency at no chance at upwardly movement. Charitable handups help out people in a pinch but would keep them trying to do better for continual help. When the government is paired back, that frees up plenty of money and cut regulations that allow businesses to prosper and expand and hire more. Now we just have part time, seasonal and minimum wage jobs available w/ little or no middle class jobs being offered. Lastly, not only should the budget be balanced like anyone else has to do but ya gotta start paying down the debt because if interest rates are hiked, then good bye to national defense and other current expenditures. It's been the Bush republicans and the fraudulent Obama progressives that have orchestrated every bailout from TARP to the Stimulus bullshit and all of it benefited corporate wall street interests while screwing over the average person and home owner. They've been driving up the cost of tuition on all young people by guaranteeing student loans which gives no incentive for colleges to cut costs. When government subsidizes something you always get more of it at a greater cost. Interesting that cell phones, tvs, computers, lasik and plastic surgery have come down in price over the years - all of which are low regulated markets. And the only way the government has been able to do all of the above and fight ridiculous wars all this time is because of the Federal Reserve monetizing the debt - aka counterfeiting money which kills savers and inflates the money supply. How in the world can anyone be involved in Bitcoin if they don't understand what it actually does and it's long term goal? It's honest money yet I bet the dyed in the whole lefties here that bend over backwards doing rolling donuts to confuse and obfuscate the situation are here only to ride the money train in their own greedy way rather than glowingly realize that Bitcoin is going to free the average person from corporate bankster interests that have been sucking everyone dry since at least 1913. And finally, since that time frame the government has only grown to epic proportions and less and less opportunities have been allotted to each subsequent generation. You can't deny that.
