To: bdeaner
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.
2 posted on
12/07/2003 1:49:29 PM PST by
sinkspur
(Adopt a shelter dog or cat! You'll save one life, and maybe two!)
To: sinkspur; JohnHuang2; Poohbah; Catspaw; Howlin; Miss Marple; PhiKapMom; Coop; Luis Gonzalez; ...
FYI ping.
Michael Barone is quite on target with a lot of things.
8 posted on
12/07/2003 2:04:11 PM PST by
hchutch
("I don't see what the big deal is, I really don't." - Major Vic Deakins, USAF (ret.))
To: 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. 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.
11 posted on
12/07/2003 2:08:35 PM PST by
CGTRWK
To: sinkspur
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.
To: sinkspur
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.
107 posted on
12/09/2003 4:25:49 PM PST by
William McKinley
(Dean's a little teapot, short and stout. When he gets all steamed up, hear him shout!)
To: sinkspur
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).
117 posted on
12/09/2003 5:04:22 PM PST by
Wolfstar
(Ronald Reagan — Freedom Man)
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