Math Made Easy, GOP Style!

I'm very curious to learn more about Sir Rand Paul's budgeting math/scheme. Curious in a car wreck sort of way. A spokesman for his campaign told a blogger that as senator Paul would "vote against and filibuster any unbalanced budget proposal in the Senate." Strong words considering how hard it would be to balance a budget that is at least $1.3 trillion in the deficit column. Derek Thompson outlines just how hard and impossible it would be to balance the budget.

Let's take this plan seriously. Most conservatives would begin by canceling the stimulus, which is still expected to spend about $100 billion in 2011. Conservatives might also call for freezing public salaries, canceling TARP, freezing discretionary spending at 2008 levels, and beginning to phase in Rep. Paul Ryan's plan to cut $1.3 trillion over the next decade. Let's say that saves another $100-$150 billion in 2011.

You're still more than $1 trillion away from a balanced budget. You could cancel Social Security for the year ($700 billion) and stop paying every soldier in Afghanistan and Iraq (another $170 billion in proposed spending), and you still wouldn't have a balanced budget.

Likewise, Randy told a tea bagger crowd in his hometown of Bowling Green, KY., that Republicans share some responsibility for our current deficit but that Democrats are more to blame. His reasoning is that Republicans doubled the debt and Democrats are tripling it. Well, Sir Rand, that's a total lie.

I suppose we'll go through this again.  I don't know to make it any simpler.  But I'll try.

• 8 years of Reagan the debt increased by $2.7 trillion or 186%
• 4 years of King George I, the debt increased by $1.5 trillion or 58%
• 8 years of Clinton the debt increased by $1.6 trillion or 39%
• 8 years of King George II, the debt increased by $6.2 trillion or 105%
• 1.5 years of Obama the debt has increased by $1.8 trillion or 20%

All data can be found here (***Republican Fantasy World Alert***  This link is to official government resources and not Fox News)

No where does it show Democrats coming close to tripling the debt.  Rand Paul you are a liar.  You are just a flat out liar.  What the data does show is the people who are least responsible and the biggest spenders of all are Republicans.  The very people portrayed by the media, Republicans and tea baggers as "fiscal conservatives" are actually the people who are, in no uncertain terms, compulsive retards when it comes to running government.

Just like Rand Paul couldn't possibly balance the budget even though he claims he'll filibuster anything that's not balanced, he has no clue about simple economic history.  He lies just to make it look like he does.  He lies to cover up the fact that his GOP is responsible for the enormous debt we have today.  And he lies because he's talking to a tea bagger crowd that strokes off to anything and everything to do with make-believe fiscal conservatism.