The Heritage foundation known for their conservatism and known for their slogan of "What Would Reagan Do" has recently released some charts that made me proud to be a democrat. The charts basically show the inflation adjusted amounts of spending and revenue by presidents back to JFK.
Heres a link:Heritage Charts- click on one of the light brown tabs
Under democratic leadership, spending went down while still installing programs to help those in need. Spending was limited, but in a good way. Democrats clearly limited defense spending, limited money wasting no bid contracts and refused to spend money on corporations. Thus Democrats have in the end created a more balanced budget while keeping programs in place to help people, effectively.
Republicans on the other hand have actually spent more money not just on defense spending, but also on social programs. The only difference with the Republicans is the social programs they have help the wealthy and screw the rest of us. Republicans have also raised defense spending while making us more and more less secure. Just looking at this website makes me realize that Republicans just don't know how to run a White House or a Congress.
I have no idea why the heritage foundation promotes these graphs, they just prove that conservatives and Republicans are ineffective and just plane wrong about money. Why should the American government expect people to be responsible borrowers when the government itself can't do it itself. Jackie Kennedy said that you never know how much it means to be a Democrat until you have been a Republican. For those of you who haven't yet experienced the true stupidity of being Republican, this might expose to you just how much being a Democrat really matters to changing the world and bringing about "change we can believe in."