Posted on 02/15/2004 4:32:06 AM PST by sopwith
Edited on 02/15/2004 4:41:55 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
CONSERVATIVES and other limited-government types are furious at President George W. Bush for his big-spending ways. One group said the Republican-controlled government is dispensing cash like a "drunken sailor." But in fact, there's nothing spontaneous or accidental about the spending spree. What we're seeing is the sober logic of a changing Republican Party, as well as a changing American psyche, post-9-11 -- from peacetime consumerism to wartime welfarism. Those seeking to measure such changes might dip into Bush's newly released Fiscal Year 2005 budget; its pages offer proof that the era of big government is back again.
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