> If you want to limit spending, you have to do it at appropriations time, which is when Congress decides what to spend money on. Yet, you say: > Do note that

> If you want to limit spending, you have to do it at appropriations time, which is when Congress decides what to spend money on. Yet, you say: > Do note that Reagan spent money “we didn’t have” like it was going out of style. No blaming of the Democrats in control of the House? > Bill Clinton, on the other hand, left office with a surplus So the Republican congress under the majority of Clinton's tenure had nothing to do with the spending? > promptly squandered by George W. Bush Yeah, that had nothing to do with 9/11, the dot com bust, or the Democratic congress which contributed to at least third of the debt under Bush even though they represent a quarter of Bush's term.