Posted on 09/25/2008 9:55:38 AM PDT by djsherin
Republicans and Big Government Spending
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSITu4pbfeM&feature=PlayList&p=5B0402C8953DDCEA&index=2
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Get out TROLL
Wow. I didn’t say I like democrats better but there is a myth that Republicans are for lower spending. They say they are but it’s not true. In case you didn’t know, this is a conservative forum, not a Republican apologist forum.
In fact all I said about the subject was that it was interesting.
This link is a better one showing who has their head up their ass in congress...I smell a RAT...
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/194210.php
sorry but it has been a rat fest around here the last few days.
Probably. But it’s not just democrats (in other cases at least). There aren’t enough truly conservative Republicans anymore.
The Devil is in the details. Reagan and Bush I both had liberal Democrat congresses to deal with. Bill Clinton’s aspirations of Nationalized Health Care was stopped by the GOP taking control of congress in 1994. The GOP also pushed Welfare and a Blanced budget amendment. GW Bush is an exception in that he pushed things like the Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Program. One of the biggest areas of spending under Bush was for National Security. So if you speak in generalities like so many who wish to minimize the differences between parties for their own political goals which is to weaken the GOP then they can only accomplish that goal by addressing things in invalid ways like reducing the whole thing down to who was President during a time. The real picture is much different. The GOP needs to better hold the line on spending that is certain GW Bush was horrible regardless of how you slice him on spending and this trillion dollar bailout is only going to make the ledger worse for him. The Government is like a bad child, we are their enablers, we need to take the check book away from both Democrats and Republicans but we certainly don’t need more liberal democrats in congress because they don’t even understand the concept of fiscal restraint.
The GOP deserves credit for stopping the National Health Care plan of the Clintons. They deserve pushing the balanced budget amendment. George W Bush was a travesty on the spending front and congress was too quick to go along with him. John McCain is refreshing. I wish we’d have voted for him to run against Gore but that is done. We now have a new day, let us hope that John McCain keeps his integrity and uses his veto frequently.
you’ve got to admit that government grew largely under Reagan, and again under Bush.
Trouble is obsolete Federal agencies are not discarded when new ones are added. From a conservative point of view, this just doesn’t bode well.
Have you posted this on DU yet?
Oh I absolutely agree. Republican presidents have had to deal with Democratic Congresses before, but that doesn’t absolve them of guilt. Like you point out with Bush, I’m just making the observation that government tends to grow no matter what. From what I can tell, Nixon and Eisenhower certainly weren’t bastions of fiscal responsibility. It’s unfortunate.
The reason I posted this was because it was against my expectations. Certainly it doesn’t make the democrats better, but it is worth reflecting on IMO.
Read post #4 and #12.
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