Why do federal reserve chairman worry about the deficit?

[Free Trade is managed by the invisible hand.]

I have read up on the lives of 4 federal reserve chairman, and honestly i have always been puzzled as to why Both Alan Green Span, and bernanke continue to advocate for less government spending. I am puzzled because both of them had some misgivings about the stimulus, and they are deficit hawks even when government should be increasing the deficit and cutting tax's. Thus I wonder if a lower deficit, or balanced budget effects the profit making ability of the federal reserve? Its just a guess though because I know that the Federal Reserve will sometimes make a surplus, and transfer this money to the treasury.

Green Span would consistently say that he would have been supportive of the bush tax cuts if it had a trigger, and the media inaccurately reported this to mean that he actually supported the bush tax cut. Secondly he is a strong believer in the idea that less government debt will reduce the cost of borrowing.

[Derek]

With alot of deficit though, you have to remember that it's the federal reserve that compensates for that. When there are massive deficits combined with a recession, that's where the real problem lies with the federal reserve. The debt in the US is too big a problem for someone not to care about. I actually am starting to think it's the biggest problem we face. At least domestically.