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How Big Is Bush's Big Government?
Ludwig von Mises Institute ^ | April 18, 2006 | Mark Brandly

Posted on 04/26/2006 2:14:17 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan

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To: PubliusToo

The problem is that balancing the budget was merely a broken campaign pledge...I would compare it to Clinton running on Welfare Reform, but in office he vetoed such reform TWICE uintil finally he relented to Congress. Secondly, despite all the New Deal infusions...we saw a prolonged Depression that did not end until after WWII. You should read 'FDR's Folly' for more on this subject.


21 posted on 04/26/2006 2:48:31 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan (I am defiantly proud of being part of the Religious Right in America.)
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To: untrained skeptic

I agree, having created a site called Clinton's Bin Laden-gate, but I disagree having supported both the War in Afghanistan and Iraq, because our mission has focused more on nation building in both those countries while even the President has repeatedly made politically correct statements about how Islam is a religion of peace. Furthermore, you may surprised to learn that defense spending really hasn't increased nowhere to the extent non-defense discreationary spending has...


22 posted on 04/26/2006 2:51:58 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan (I am defiantly proud of being part of the Religious Right in America.)
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To: RHINO369
"The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism." -Ludwig von Mises

I agree, in fact, I'm realigning my personal political activism towards ending the Welfare State...anyone with half a brain can take the unfunded liability of Medicare...Medicaid...the prescription drug coverage ($10 trillion)...Social Security ($7 Trillion) and realize this country is about to go belly up unless we do something NOW!
23 posted on 04/26/2006 2:55:41 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan (I am defiantly proud of being part of the Religious Right in America.)
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To: PeterFinn

Well Clinton-lite is better than Clinton-max. And you got two conservative judges instead of two more Ginsbergs. Kind of hard to put a smiley face on this stench but politics is, after all, always about the lesser of evils.


24 posted on 04/26/2006 2:56:11 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: PeterFinn
Nope. We got a president who knows the future of America lies in it's children being educated.

A president who knows that preventive medicine with prescription coverage means medicare will spend less on seniors because they will get to the doctor before they're diagnosed with high blood pressure, diabetes, or heart troubles. Will get some treatment so their bones don't break before they learn their lacking calcium.

Sorry if you'd rather the young and the old go straight to hell for all you care.

Better these things than more great society welfare that doesn't work.

25 posted on 04/26/2006 2:57:56 PM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: Captain Kirk
Was Kerry, for example, more pro-big govenrment than Clinton? I see little reason to believe he was.

It would be hard to believe that he wasn't. He was ranked most liberal Senator in Congress for a few years if you recall.

26 posted on 04/26/2006 2:58:01 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: RHINO369

Of course KerryGore would have gone on an E.O. rampage, just like Clintoon did.


27 posted on 04/26/2006 2:59:53 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

Inflation, the answer to debt. It's the government way.


28 posted on 04/26/2006 3:01:15 PM PDT by ex-snook ("But above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

Seems to me the "wasted" vote is the vote for big government. With both the dems and pubs neck and neck in the race for insanely bloated government, a vote for either of those parties would seem a "wasted" vote.


29 posted on 04/26/2006 3:04:47 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: PeterFinn

Yeah, right. Kerry was the most liberal Senator in the place. Had Kerry been President we wouldn't have gone after Al Quada, we would have had tax increases instead of tax cuts, would have been "negotiating" with Iran and had two more Ginsberg's on the SC. It's interesting to me how people get carried away and completely lose perspective. Yes, things can always be worse.


30 posted on 04/26/2006 3:05:11 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk

"It would be hard to believe that he wasn't. He was ranked most liberal Senator in Congress for a few years if you recall."

The president needs to have congress pass a law before he signs it. Republicans have demonstrated that they hold a democratic president to a MUCH higher standard than they hold their own.

Kerry would try to spend more, but fail.


31 posted on 04/26/2006 3:07:03 PM PDT by RHINO369
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To: plain talk

We'll, we have conservative judges because CONSERVATIVES nrefused Harriet Miers nomination! I suppose you want us to make a Faustian Deal..


32 posted on 04/26/2006 3:07:46 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan (I am defiantly proud of being part of the Religious Right in America.)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

Who knows. The whole thing looked like a ploy and she was pulled. I'm not convinced conservatives had that much to do with it. Bush does his own thing and we can all attest to that.


33 posted on 04/26/2006 3:11:10 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: RHINO369
Kerry would try to spend more, but fail.

Kerry would spend more. Somehow I don't feel that confident our wobbly Republican Congress would have been that successful in holding him back based on their track record.

34 posted on 04/26/2006 3:13:45 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

for later


35 posted on 04/26/2006 3:15:08 PM PDT by Gipper08 (Mike Pence in 2008)
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To: OldFriend
LOLOL...

On Education - Bush let Teddy Kennedy co-author his education bill...it simply amounted to the largest federal spending on education since the creation of a Department of Education in 1979!!! The test results are in...we've seen test scores decline...it didn't address the left wing PC curriculum...it didn't address the leftist NEA and its squeeze on schools...WHY do you think the Southern Baptist Convention is working toward removing their children from government schools?

As for prescription drug coverage...all the President did was implement another program on the road to nationalized healthcare...we spend something like $225 billion on Medicare every single year...not to mention the cost of Medicaid...and he decided to throaw in aother entitlement...drug coverage....costing $600 billion over so many years...that's what you call socialized medicine, pal! The government already pays closed to half of all medical costs... You've got to be kidding me....prescription drug coverage is the largest expansion of Medicare, a "great society" program, and you have the nerve to act like an apple isn't an apple????
36 posted on 04/26/2006 3:16:05 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan (I am defiantly proud of being part of the Religious Right in America.)
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To: PeterFinn

Sadly, I agree


37 posted on 04/26/2006 3:18:00 PM PDT by joesnuffy
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To: stopem
So is this "expert" a liberal?

Considering he referenced the Bush Administration as "Bush Regime", I would guess so...

38 posted on 04/26/2006 3:30:23 PM PDT by pgyanke (Christ has a tolerance for sinners; liberals have a tolerance for sin.)
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To: PeterFinn

That's right. "With Bush all we got was Clinton-lite." Triangulation to win elections.


39 posted on 04/26/2006 4:05:09 PM PDT by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: stopem

Pointing out how this administration wastes my tax dollars is not a liberal position. It's a conservative one. Something Republicans know little, if anything, about.


40 posted on 04/26/2006 4:09:55 PM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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