[The_Eaglet]

Bush maybe a Republican but when it comes to spendings, he is reckless - 1 billion dollars to promote marriage, 270 Million dollars on abstinence and lord knows what else social-enginering crap he has in the budgets. I don't like the left to spend my dollars on social-enginering stuff and I sure don't like the right to do the same.

I agree. The left is upset with Bush about this because they see it as being "narrow-minded." The conservatives who are concerned about excessive and/or unconstitutional spending because it expands the federal government and the burden on American taxpayers. As long as deficit spending continues, programs like this also add to the burden on future American taxpayers.

[FRgal4u]

The government has not business to set up programs to promote marriage, let alone spending 1 billion dollars on it. Bush is a great on the war on terrorism stuff, but on domestic policies, especially on spendings, he is reckless. We don't need a nanny state from the government - I don't care about social-enginerring from the left and I sure don't care social-engineering from the right. I wish Bush has the same steel in cutting big government programs like Reagan, but his record on that is extremely poor. Sometimes I wonder if he is paying attention to what he is doing or he just sign off the social-engineering crap from his staff (thinking this could buy votes in 2004). A billion here, a billion there, billions everywhere. Who's counting anyway.