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dude, don't try to both-sides this one. just look at the deficits of the administrations going back to Reagan.

The main wars fought in the past 40 years have all been GOP initiated: Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran. This have dwarfed the military operations initiated by Dems.

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Every administration since Clinton, no matter the party, has run a deficit. It actually is both sides who are the problem. The only argument I've seen to the contrary in this thread is that Democrat administrations have had a smaller deficit, but that is an irrelevant argument. Any amount of deficit is unacceptable, you don't get brownie points because you filled the ship with water slower than the other guy did.

> you don't get brownie points because you filled the ship with water slower than the other guy did

you absolutely do; deficits are not binary -- size matters

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