Re: Bigelow Aerospace to offer $760 million for spaceship

In article <479e5706.2785858863@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx (Rand Simberg) wrote:

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:52:21 -0600, in a place far, far away, Joe
Strout <joe@xxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

Well, what can I say, except to vote for a strong fiscally conservative
candidate next year... which these days, usually means a Democrat.

That's a joke, right?

Nope. For the last 30 years or so, we have:

Carter (D): reduced the national debt as compared to GDP
Bush (R): increased the debt
Regan (R): increased the debt
Clinton (D): reduced the debt
Bush (R): increased the debt (in fact broke all deficit records)

(Source: <http://zfacts.com/p/318.html>.)

Another comparison, showing the debt (as percent of GDP) for the each
president since 1980 as they entered and left office:
<http://uspolitics.about.com/od/thefederalbudget/ig/Political-Economic-Me
asures/Presidential-Comparison.htm>

....Yep, Clinton (D) was the only one of the four to leave things in a
better state than he found them; Regan, Bush, and Bush (all R) left
things considerably worse. (Carter (D) also left things better than he
found them, though he's just outside the range of this graph.)

Rand, I know you're what some might call a frothing Republican, and deny
any evidence that your favored party is screwing up... but these are
facts, as reported by the OMB. I don't see how even you could twist
them to support a nonsensical position. We have a clear 30-year trend:
Democratic presidents result in fiscal responsibility and a reduction of
relative debt; Republican presidents are fiscally irresponsible and
result in increased debt.

Fortunately, indications are good that a majority of the country has had
just about enough of Republican screw-ups for a while, and is set to
correct things next year:
<http://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/graphs/graph_Pres08_VS.cfm>

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