Right back at ya, mountain man.
Your only way to defend yourself, after years of your bullshit preaching and insulting, is to say clearly and loudly that Ronald Reagan, the granddaddy of our modern debt, was wrong to blow the lid off our national debt, paving the way for generations of debt we'll never see our way clear of.
Further admit that by YOUR own definition of principled conservatives, Ronald Reagan was not one.
HEAR ME NOW: I ENDORSE NO DEBT. NONE. EVER.
Is there times when it must happen: Sure. As I told you there: WWII is a great example.
And as I told you there, I am not far along in my understanding of what happened under Reagan, line by line. Nor does it matter - Because the sins of one are not the same as those of ALL.=There has been NO correction. IN THIRTY YEARS.
That Reagan borrowed too much is no secret and I have never denied it.
That I expect less out of a nascent movement than I do out of a mature one is reasonable.
And NO, that does not mean I endorse Reagan's debt.
And the 1.8 trillion of Reagan is a far far cry from the tens of trillions committed by BOOSH, Obummer, and Tumpy.
THAT's The debt we'll never get out of - ALL debt with no cuts in spending. In fact, with INCREASE in spending all the way along. THAT is NOT Reagan.
What ever your bitch about Reagan, he DID cut spending. Inflation came DOWN, so he was not printing money, and he even raised taxes when expected receipts from a burgeoning economy were not as much of a balm as expected.
UNDERSTAND THAT: He RAISED taxes to cover what did not gain from the growing economy.
It is not the debt that is the conservative bane, though we don't want it... It is debt without cutting spending. And whatever Reagan did, the fault lies more and more with each generation that did not correct it, and added to it instead... Till we get to you screeching like you do. As if tearing down Reagan will be some sort of excuse.
