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Nice block at 11:17am ET. You beat me to it!--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 11:18, 2 July 2007 (EDT)
Nice block at 11:17am ET. You beat me to it!--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 11:18, 2 July 2007 (EDT)
== Deficit spending, etc. ==
- "and that last statement you made, alleging that Ronald Reagan virtually invented deficits"
My edit did not say anything of the sort. There has always been national debt, off and on, and certainly you are correct in reflecting that FDR did engage in some large-scale deficit spending. Interestingly, he was very opposed to the idea, despite the urgings of economist John Keynes to use it as a tool to end the Depression. FDR had originally run for President criticizing Hoover for engaging in deficit spending, and he later decided to pull the plug from the New Deal when he thought the Depression was ending in 36, causing the "Roosevelt recession," which basically returned the country to the depths of the Depression again. It is an undeniable fact, however, that the debt has climbed dramatically since Reagan's administration. I can back this up if you give me time to find a source, rather than jumping on me for every unsourced edit. I've been clicking around this site for a while and have found very few articles that contain any sourcing at all. Obviously you are doing the right thing by demanding a source, but I do have the facts straight, at least this time. [[User:Kristkrispies|Kristkrispies]] 18:17, 3 July 2007 (EDT)