{"id":3525,"date":"2009-09-28T22:56:03","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T02:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3525"},"modified":"2009-09-28T22:58:09","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T02:58:09","slug":"war-on-talking-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/28\/war-on-talking-points\/","title":{"rendered":"war on Talking Points&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"justify\">I guess I&#8217;ve heard the Republican Talking Point that the Democrats were &quot;<strong><font color=\"#300030\">tax and spend<\/font><\/strong>&quot; so long myself that I questioned the results in my last post. So I did it again from scratch. The graph in the <em>upper left<\/em> is the raw data for income and expenses. The one in the <em>upper right<\/em> is the Gross Domestic Product. The <em>lower left<\/em> shows the income and expenses corrected for the GDP as a way of correcting for inflation. The deficit\/surplus graph [<em>lower right<\/em>] came out just like last time. The Nixon\/Ford, Reagan\/Bush, and Bush\/Cheney Administrations all three escalated spending and operated with large deficits. Both Carter and Clinton cut spending, and Clinton actually produced a surplus. <\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"7\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/deficit_timeline.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Why didn&#8217;t I know this? Why doesn&#8217;t everyone know this? How do the Republicans get away with saying it year after year? [Here&#8217;s where the numbers came from if you want to check my work.]:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong><font color=\"#300030\">The National Accounts<\/font><\/strong>: The <u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bea.gov\/national\/nipaweb\/TableView.asp?SelectedTable=86&#038;ViewSeries=NO&#038;Java=no&#038;Request3Place=N&#038;3Place=N&#038;FromView=YES&#038;Freq=Year&#038;FirstYear=1929&#038;LastYear=2008&#038;3Place=N&#038;Update=Update&#038;JavaBox=no#Mid\"><strong>National Accounting<\/strong><\/a><\/u> is easily accessed on the Bureau of Economic Analysis web site.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong><font color=\"#300030\">The Gross Domestic Product<\/font><\/strong>: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bea.gov\/national\/nipaweb\/TableView.asp?SelectedTable=5&#038;ViewSeries=NO&#038;Java=no&#038;Request3Place=N&#038;3Place=N&#038;FromView=YES&#038;Freq=Year&#038;FirstYear=1929&#038;LastYear=2008&#038;3Place=N&#038;Update=Update&#038;JavaBox=no#Mid\" target=\"_blank\"><u><strong>GDP<\/strong><\/u><\/a> is available in another section of the Bureau of Economic Analysis web site.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">Unfortunately, this data doesn&#8217;t flesh out the &quot;tax&quot; part except grossly [like the gross Bush tax cut]. But my interest is definitely aroused. I expect there&#8217;s a taxation comparison coming soon to a blog near here.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I&#8217;ve heard the Republican Talking Point that the Democrats were &quot;tax and spend&quot; so long myself that I questioned the results in my last post. So I did it again from scratch. The graph in the upper left is the raw data for income and expenses. The one in the upper right is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}