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"The welfare and regulatory state has grown faster in Dubya's one and half years than it did in Clinton's eight."

You keep mentioning this. Clinton didn't do anything to the terrorists under his regime, except bomb the infamous pharmaceutical factory and hit a couple empty terrorist camps. What if he had done something during his administation to stop terrorism? How much would he have spent? How many more government programs would have been established? But he didn't, so in theory, the spending related to the war on terror can be directly attributed to the previous administration. In addition, clinton rode the shirt tails of the Reagan years, of course claiming it was him. The economy turned during his last year in office. When you compared the clinton spending numbers to Bush spending numbers did you take into account the depreciation value of money?

On the other hand, what if Gore were president and had to do something regarding the terrorists? How much would he be spending? Would this country be under marshall law? What other socialist programs would have been implemented for the 'good of the nation'?

I would also like to see your figures if you don't mind.

You can not compare what was done to what is being done, the situations are extremely different.