pocketfullofshells
Well-Known Member
It is not the president who busts the budget, but the Congress. Blaming Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, Obama for spending the country into bankruptcy ignores the reality that it is Congress that holds the national purse strings. Moreover, the partisan "it's the Republicans, no the Democrats" argument seems to me to disregard an important fact:
Neither party has a history of fiscal conservatism.
one side has a recent history better then the other...And congress holds the Purse...but the President has a strong impact on what goes in the purse and can veto the purse if he wants....