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No Carter didn't spend as much, in the meantime his administration was being pushed around like a trollop by the Soviets and contributed to the "malaise" he spoke about.
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Actually the soviet union didn't attack us once during the Carter administration.
The soviet union was doomed to failure regardless of what we did. Unless you want to defend communism as a viable form of economics.
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Actually not true, take away cold war spending and Reagan was fiscally conservative. However he was limited, his veto was overridden by the spendthrift democrat congress for items like the multi billion dollar Big Dig boondoggle.
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1) But Reagan did spend money on the military. If you take away from any Presidents budget one of the largest outputs, they all appear fiscially conservative.
2) Reagan issued 78 Vetos. 9 Were overridden by Congress.
3) The Democratic Congress trimmed the fat from Reagans bloated budget twice, and increased it by miniscule amounts 6 times. (Less than 4%) We have already been down this road.
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Actually about 10 years ago, the Republican congress can be thanked for controlling spending while Clinton was in office as well.
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You will have to compare OMB requests to actual budgets passed to prove that one. Are you sure that is how it really played out?
(warning: On clinton's last budget proposal, he was the most fiscally conservative President in the last 27 years)
The Republican Dogma does not match the reality.
Ixtellor