[gab1279]

As they say, "It's the entitlements, stupid." Wasteful, misguided government spending is out of control. Under a Republican Congress and Republican President no less, this has gotten even worse, and I'm quite concerned that Bush needs to address this in his second term because we are headed for disaster with spending at this rate.

Republicans are becoming indistinguishable from Democrats in the spending arena...what happened to Reagan Republican ideals? They're as bad as Democrats now in packing expensive home district projects onto any appropriations bills that come along.

Remember the promises of the Contract With America? Backscratching in Washington and protecting their political interests with pork-barreling ended up making it null and void.

Keeping the presidency and increasing our Congress majorities was just the first step, now we really to ask the hard the questions of how we are going to get back to core prinicles and fiscal responsibility.

Bush's Social Security revamp will likely incur huge transition costs. And the Dept. of Education bureaucracy - spending for it was up 110%. It's a sprawling messy thing.

In my profile, I have some concerns there and info about a book that that was very informative and eye-opening about these issues.

I have links to resources concerning the things mentioned in the first post on the Resources page of my website.

[Jack Black]

Thanks for your response. Yes, that's a lot of what I'm saying. I take it as somewhat an unspoken truth the the Republicans are not going to make aboriton illegal, no matter who many of us think they should. That hurts, but I've kind of accepted it.

Now I am thinking I need to accept that the spending and broken entitlement programs also have no end, even with both houses of the legislature and the executive branch in our control. Hard to accept.