The Response:
Andy Tate Well, the right wing hasn't paid for its governing policies in my lifetime.
Let's see... The deficit has (comparing first to last/most recent fiscal years) went down under Obama, up under George W. Bush, down under Clinton, up under George H. W. Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, and Nixon, and down under LBJ. So out of the last 50 governmental fiscal years, we've had 4 Democrats as presidents and 5 Republicans. 22 years of Democratic budgets, 28 of Republicans. During that time, Democrats have had 3 of 4 presidents see the deficit go down, Republicans have had 0 out of 5.
That's why this meme completely fails. Republican policies are responsible for the majority of our national debt as 54.1% of our national debt was accumulated under the 20 years of budgets under Reagan, G. H. W. Bush, and G. W. Bush.
Looking at the broader long term economic picture, every president to see the unemployment rate higher at the end of their term than the beginning in the last 100 years has been Republican, economic growth is higher under Democrats than Republicans (4.35% to 2.54%), and the list goes on.
The short version is that conservative economic policies are, in a very provable way, worse for the US than liberal economic policies.
