Could the conservatives please drop this talking point? The Republicans have
not been fiscal conservatives for decades;
See the red sections? Those are Republican presidencies. See how, post-Ford, every Republican presidency has seen an
increase in debt as a percentage of GDP? See how the Democrats typically show a
reduction of the same ratio? The Democrats have been the fiscal conservatives for decades,
not the Republicans. If you look at the actual data, rather than believing the promises they inevitably break.
The only exceptions to that were FDR/Truman, who were dealing with WW2 and it's aftermath, and Obama, but you can see even here that the rate of growth is tapering off with Obama, and the reason
for that growth was the massively spiking debt ratio and collapsing economy.his administration was handed by G.W. Bush.