Regarding your comments if the difference between 2006, 1996, and 1986 isn't immediately obvious to you when you go out on the street during rush hour, when you pay your taxes, when you try and reconcile your checkbook, and so on...what more can be said? Why yes.
In '86 we had a no-quota's amnesty, federal spending as a percentage of GDP all the way up around 22.5%, Dandra Day O'Connor instead of Alito....
I could really go on.
In '86 we had a no-quota's amnesty,
Which Reagan regretted deeply. Instead, we are supposed to roll over and play dead for a guest worker program (do a little research and see what happened to the
last temporary guest worker program. Hint: those temporary guest workers are still here. If you are a true conservative, you know that very little the government does is truly "temporary." Then again, perhaps you aren't a true conservative and this is your ultimate goal.
federal spending as a percentage of GDP all the way up around 22.5%
These percentage blips are pointless. Instead, take a look at the real problem:
Sandra Day O'Connor instead of Alito....
We would have had Harriet Meiers instead of Alito had the base heeded the doctrine of the divine right of Bush.