Originally Posted by John W. Selleck
Fiscal responsibility had to go out the window, at least in this term, to fix the mess that the 8 years before had created.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/econ...-obamas-real-economic-record-isnt-pretty

That's an interesting article, John. Having said that I don't see how you can think that fiscal responsibility had to go out of the window when this administration inherited a strong economy. That's when you pay down the debts you ran up by borrowing to support the economy when it was weak. It's not when you slash taxes, mostly for the wealthiest, and balloon the debt unnecessarily. Juicing the economy certainly has short term benefits, but someone is going to have to pay the bill and it will be harder to borrow when there's a downturn and it's actually needed. I sound more conservative than you LOL.