[sinkspur]

Governmnent has grown under every single modern-day president, Ronald Reagan included. It is a fantasy to imagine that ANY president is going to "shrink" the size of government.

Voters are going to have what they want, or you'll be replaced with someone who will give them what they want.

[hchutch]

FYI ping.

Michael Barone is quite on target with a lot of things.

[CGTRWK]

Governmnent has grown under every single modern-day president, Ronald Reagan included. It is a fantasy to imagine that ANY president is going to "shrink" the size of government.

In dollars it has, but that is more a function of a growing economy than of ballooning programs. A more realistic way to look at government spending is as a percent of GDP, and there things are not quite so depressing.

Under Reagan's watch, non defense related federal spending dropped from 14.7% of the GDP to 12.4%.

By the end of Clinton's term that number was 13.3%.

And with the drunken sailor we have in charge now, that number has swollen to 16.3% for FY2004, the highest it has ever been.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

The American public is moving left, following the cloud on the horizon made by the Democrats in their flight to total socialism.

The Republicans have charged ahead of the herd, in order to declare themselves leaders.

[William McKinley]

Ah, but if you let the voters have choices in their government services, and they keep choosing the smaller, more efficient ones, then you have shrinkage.

[Wolfstar]

Governmnent has grown under every single modern-day president...

Ummm...the federal government has grown under every single president since George Washington — except for the handful who died in office before having a chance to do much of anything (e.g., William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren Harding).