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>>>>Oh give it a rest, Reagan Man.
Those are not facts, those are your opinions.

No. You and your pack of whining Bush cheerleaders give it a rest. I offered a political position based on the facts and only the facts. If people want to take a position not consistent with the conservative agenda, have at it. Just don't think you're fooling anyone into believing you're a conservative.

Is this some of the facts you keep espousing?..... Just curious as to what you are referring to?..... Now I'm really curious as to where you got the idea that President Bush was a ultra fiscal conservative? Did you not know anything at all about him? But Looking at Discretionary dollars as a percent of GDP isn't all that bad based upon a WOT event beginning on 9-11-01. And I'd expect to see additional rises in outlays because of the devastation the US took along the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida this year and looks like CA is getting hammered by mother nature at the present time.

Table 8.

Discretionary Outlays, 1962 to 2004

(Percentage of GDP)

	Defense	International	Domestic	Total

1962	9.3	1.0	2.5	12.7
1963	9.0	0.9	2.7	12.6
1964	8.6	0.7	3.0	12.3
1965	7.4	0.7	3.2	11.3
1966	7.8	0.7	3.5	11.9
1967	8.9	0.7	3.6	13.1
1968	9.5	0.6	3.6	13.6
1969	8.7	0.4	3.2	12.4

1970	8.1	0.4	3.4	11.9
1971	7.3	0.3	3.7	11.3
1972	6.7	0.4	3.8	10.9
1973	5.9	0.4	3.7	9.9
1974	5.6	0.4	3.6	9.6
1975	5.6	0.5	4.0	10.1
1976	5.2	0.4	4.5	10.1
1977	4.9	0.4	4.6	10.0
1978	4.7	0.4	4.8	9.9
1979	4.7	0.4	4.6	9.6

1980	4.9	0.5	4.7	10.1
1981	5.2	0.4	4.5	10.1
1982	5.8	0.4	3.9	10.1
1983	6.1	0.4	3.8	10.3
1984	5.9	0.4	3.5	9.9
1985	6.1	0.4	3.5	10.0
1986	6.2	0.4	3.3	10.0
1987	6.1	0.3	3.1	9.5
1988	5.8	0.3	3.1	9.3
1989	5.6	0.3	3.1	9.1

1990	5.2	0.3	3.2	8.7
1991	5.4	0.3	3.3	9.0
1992	4.8	0.3	3.4	8.6
1993	4.4	0.3	3.4	8.2
1994	4.1	0.3	3.4	7.8
1995	3.7	0.3	3.4	7.4
1996	3.5	0.2	3.2	6.9
1997	3.3	0.2	3.1	6.7
1998	3.1	0.2	3.1	6.4
1999	3.0	0.2	3.0	6.3

2000	3.0	0.2	3.1	6.3
2001	3.0	0.2	3.2	6.5
2002	3.4	0.3	3.5	7.1
2003	3.7	0.3	3.6	7.6
2004	3.9	0.3	3.5	7.7
Source: Congressional Budget Office.

You and your pack of whining Bush cheerleaders...

Nice. I see polite discourse is not one of your strengths.

I offered a political position based on the facts and only the facts.

No sir. You expressed your opinions. Period.

Just don't think you're fooling anyone into believing you're a conservative.

After having read who knows how many hundreds of opinions on FR over the years, the one thing I know for certain. There are almost more varieties of "conservative" than there are of cultivated roses. I've learned, as well, that demagogues who run out of all other arguments ALWAYS restort in the end to crying that their opponent is not a "real" conservative.