[Poohbah]

Those new city halls, government facilities, top shelf security, and all those government workers with killer salaries, benefits, and pensions require that money. With tax time quickly approaching, just quietly give up the money and don't complain.

Who approved the budgets of these entities?

[Joe Hadenuf]

Who approved the budgets of these entities?

You mean city/county/state/federal paid cars, new government buildings/top shelf security, chauffers, killer government employee salaries, medical benefits, and big time pensions?

Was it you?

It sure the hell wasn't me.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Who approved the budgets of these entities?

Well, here are some of the answers you were demanding. I know you wont like it. As someone else put it.

George W. Bush has:

increased federal spending on education by 60.8 percent;

increased federal spending on labor by 56 percent;

increased federal spending on the interior by 23.4 percent;

increased federal spending on defense by 27.6 percent.

created a massive department of homeland security; (Yet our borders are a complete "free for all".

signed the farm bill, which was a non-kosher piñata filled with enough pork to bend space and time;

pushed through a Medicare plan which starts with a price tag of $400 billion but will — according to every expert who studies the issue — go up a gazillion-bajillion dollars over the next decade;

torched Republican — and American — credibility on trade, in both agriculture and steel;

got more people working for the federal government since the end of the Cold War;

not vetoed a single spending — or any other bill, and he has no intention of eliminating a single department;

A lead editorial in the Wall Street Journal, stated that this is the spendiest (yes, that's right, "spendiest") president in American history, second only to LBJ.