Ron Paul For President in 2008

[Final-Fan]

N-Syte said:
@Final-Fan

What does my deriding you with my wit have to do with challenging your flawed correlation of White House occupancy and national debt? And whoever said that Congress was solely responsible? I clearly said I would be willing to hear you out if you wanted to claim the responsibility was shared by both branches. My bias is that it is shared, but Congress holds the greater responsibility for the act of passing spending bills – it’s a simple matter of degree. Intellectually dishonest? I think not. I just don’t know of anyone who would say differently (except you). It’s OK if you believe the executive branch is more responsible for spending legislation. Make the case. It may be an argument I have never heard before… Ever.

You’re going to compare Iraq war spending provisions with other non-defense related spending? Kind of a politically loaded example, eh?

You’re funny. Deduct all defense spending then!

Sorry about that; I was tired.

What I meant was that the shot about fat women in Spandex eating Twinkies was so far off any conceivable point that there is no rhetorical purpose I can see; just pure insults. I may fail to take the high ground in our little debate but you picked a valley and started digging.

As for deficit spending: A conflict like that will run huge deficits no matter who is running the show. Unless you think that Republicans would have managed the insane war production of 1942-1945 without als0-massive deficits?

I'm not proposing to cut all defense spending. But you'll notice that the deficit spending for the entire DECADE of the 1960s, with "Spendocrats" in office running a war you might have heard of, ran a smaller deficit than four of the individual YEARS of Reagan's term of office.

I'm still running the numbers.