As it should have, under the terror threat, but wait until the new HS shakes out. The current inability to fire people is dragging the costs upward rather than showing the expected savings.
Bush cannot cure this with a magic wand or something.
He cannot single handed, root out all the wasteful bureaucrats and desk rats lining the offices of the fed.
If he could, there would be many buildings for lease.
Government, as a entity, has no way of saving money. I must spend it all. It will grow with the economy. It must!
But the rate of growth can be controlled.
The only controls are the congress critters themselves when they set limits for themselves and stick too them.
Yeah sure, it is all Bush's fault. NOT!
I didn't make any such claim.
Nor did I suggest that our president had a mandate to reform government overnight.
My original point was a response to a post that blamed the democrats for the expansion of government. In my response, I pointed out that the current party in leadership had only made the problem worse.
In subsequent posts, I did indeed suggest that I expected better from the party of principle and limited government.
I also admitted that I believed that most gop supporters were probably in favor of more government, and more spending. (I'm paraphrasing)
Now you know where I'm coming from, (I doubt that you ar anyone else cares, though)