Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, why we have deficits?

Both like to talk about not wanting it but neither has the courage to do what is needed to do away or reduce it. For the "blamers" still here the way our government spending process operates is that the President asks Congress for money (called a budget request) and the Congress then changes it and approves it then the President signs it. If he needs more money for something he has to go back to Congress and ask for it and the changing and voting for approval and then he signs it and can spend it; if Congress says No he cannot spend anything and he cannot make any changes to what they say it must be spent on.

Some minor movement within set limits and within a department is allowed but very little. The problem is not the "Bush Deficit" but the Congressional spending of both political parties and that means the Democrats are just as responsible as President Bush and the Republicans during his time as President since they had Congressional control four of those eight years and the spending has gotten higher ever since 2006 when they took control and not better. The largest part of the federal budget is the various "entitlement programs" so designated by Congress which are almost impossible to cut and have gotten larger and larger over the years.

Social Security and Medicare are part of those programs but in no sense the major problem but cutting those would be political suicide as the elderly collecting/using them vote and the rest of the entitlements programs are the same way with the users of those programs being very ready to vote against anyone cutting the "free stuff" they get. Both parties would lose the older voters which neither can afford and within the remaining programs you would a "racist", heartless, hate farmers and so on if you cut that so the entitlements grow larger each year. The major problem with Social Security and Medicare goes back to the Clinton surplus (all done with a Republican Congress) and had to do with an accounting trick to make it appear they had a surplus which did not really exist.

The Social Security and Medicare taxes collected were always figured separately from the other tax revenue used to run the government but both parties saw an easy way to stay within budgeted taxes and still spend-you include all that SSAN and Medicare money in the budget and only send what cash is left to the Social Security Trust Fund along with IOU's to make up the rest. Prior to that time when money was borrowed from the trust fund Congress had to vote on it and it got attention this way they had access to all of it and no one noticed. Now the IOU's are due since Social Security is paying out more then bringing in meaning the government pays the trust fund back or cuts benefits.

They will not cut benefits so they borrow and pay off the IOU's. Since President Clinton. President Bush and President Obama are not members of Congress while being President the defict belongs to the Congressional leadership going back to the first one and that includes both parties and if you want to start with President Bush then equally between the two so stop the "Bush did it and President Obama has to fix it" blame game and get honest.

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