Republicans are fiscally conservative??

I asked some friends for some more information on the economic issues we're facing with respect to more Republican rule. Hugh responded within minutes with this:

"Let's start with this little chart that I put together showing federal debt accumulation by year. Debt is different from deficit in that it also takes into account the money that is stolen from social security to keep the deficit down, so the debt numbers are higher than the deficit, but it's the same trend."

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