To: Wolfstar
Yawn. In case it hasn't already been posted:
GWB's CONTRIBUTION TO BIG GOVERNMENT
HUNDREDS OF WAYS IN WHICH GEORGE W. BUSH HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THE GROWTH OF GOVERNMENT
THIS LIST LAST UPDATED JANUARY 10, 2004
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In his nomination acceptance speech in 2000 Bush said, "Big government is not the answer." It reminded me of when Ronald Reagan said that government is not the solution and then presided over a 67% increase in federal spending during his 8-year tenure. Republicans campaign like libertarians but govern like socialists. They increase government spending, drown business in new regulations, create and expand government programs, impose economic sanctions on other countries and meddle in their internal affairs, instigate wars, and curtail freedom. They're willing to pander to virtually any special interest group which throws money in their direction. They even enact gun-control. Republicans have no incentive to reduce government because they can always count on their rank-and-file supporters to vote party-line. If you want to reduce government and get it out of your life then you must stop supporting the people who are making government bigger. Supporting the "lesser of two evils" isn't going to reduce government.Since taking office George W. Bush has increased the national debt by $895.7 billion. [source]
George W. Bush has spent more time campaigning while in office than any of his predecessors. [source]
Bush has never vetoed a spending bill. [source]
With GOP Congress behind him, Bush has yet to use veto [source] — Aided by a Republican-controlled Congress, President Bush is on track to become the first chief executive since John Quincy Adams in the 1820s to complete a full term without vetoing one bill.
Do Republicans really support smaller government? Here are some interesting facts:
- Republicans controlled both Houses of Congress from 1995 through 2001 during which time the federal budget grew from $1.4 trillion to $2.1 trillion (about $100 billion annually). [source]
- Since Republicans took control of the House in 1995, federal discretionary spending has grown by a rate of about 7% annually. The number of earmarks lawmakers have put in the spending bills to steer federal funds to their districts has also grown. By one estimate, between fiscal years 2001 and 2002, they increased from about 6,300 to 8,300, or 32%. [source]
- Since the Republicans took over Congress in 1995, the budget has grown by 50%. [source]
- Even though we now have GOP control of the White House, the Senate and the House, the bloated $2.25 trillion federal government has grown more rapidly on President Bush's watch than it did under Clinton. [source]
- Social welfare programs under George W. Bush have grown by $96 billion in just two years, versus $51 billion under six years of Clinton, according to economist Stephen Moore of the Club for Growth. [source]
- Pork-barrel spending rose by 21.6% from 2001 to 2003 according to CAGW President Tom Schatz. [source]
- When Ronald Reagan became president in 1981 the federal budget was $680 billion. When he left office in 1989 the federal budget was $1.14 trillion -- an increase of 67%. [source]
- The last Republican presidents to preside over a decrease in federal spending were Warren G. Harding (who served from 1921 until his death in 1923) and Calvin Coolidge (who served from 1923 until 1929). During that time federal spending decreased 44% from $5 billion to $2.85 billion. However, spending began increasing again in 1928 before Calvin Coolidge left office. [source]
- Also be sure to read Bush and the Republican Gun Grabbers
SOCIALIST WELFARE PROGRAMS & POLITICAL BOONDOGGLES
760 posted on
01/27/2004 3:21:47 PM PST by
Sir Gawain
(Pimptastically ghetto fantabulous)
To: Sir Gawain
BARF. And you're source (URL) is...?
767 posted on
01/27/2004 3:30:01 PM PST by
onyx
(Your secrets are safe with me and all my friends.)
To: Sir Gawain
LV Editor's NoteWho or what is LV?
768 posted on
01/27/2004 3:31:14 PM PST by
Neets
(Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.~)
To: Sir Gawain; onyx
AH!!! I found it on my own.
Damn that google.
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776 posted on
01/27/2004 3:42:08 PM PST by
Neets
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