Why Democrats reduce the deficit

[liberalpragmatist]

Let's be honest: there is ONE party that is actually concerned about fiscal responsibility. And it's not the Republicans. Every single major deficit-reduction package of the past 30 years has occurred under Democratic Congresses.

Presidents Carter, Clinton, and Obama were ALL obsessed (probably too much so) about making their programs fiscally conservative. The key aspect is that Democrats, for all their faults, actually care about government working. So they seek to get the government's finances in order. And then Republicans criticize them for it. Recall that without the stimulus we'd have a HIGHER short-term stimulus. The Affordable Care Act as well as the student loan reform both REDUCE the long-term deficit, the health care bill by quite a bit.

Republicans DO NOT CARE. Any "concerns" about the deficit are complete hogwash. They don't give a damn about the deficit. They just hate the government and they hate sending money from rich people and "real Americans" to poor people (who they think are all brown or black).