The most recent president to seriously control (and even eliminate!) the deficit was Clinton, who was a Democrat. One can quite reasonably debate what the gove

The most recent president to seriously control (and even eliminate!) the deficit was Clinton, who was a Democrat. One can quite reasonably debate what the government deficit should be, but the idea that Democrats are big spenders and the Republicans are big savers is ludicrous. The debt limit, of course, is terrible policy.