Taxcuts. That alone nukes all this hysteria about "Big Goverment" Conservatives. EVERY bill, such as the $40 billion in defecit reduction the Congress passed last Decemeber was passed with NO Democrat votes. Funny how in all the usal hysteria from the Know Nothing they NEVER bother to consider the Democrat position has always been WE SHOULD SPEND MORE. Go look what they were saying during Katernina. ALL the Democrats were screaming about Bush's "draconian budget cuts" Utterly stupid for the Donner Party Conservatives to be screaming about the Republicans spending and helping the Democrats who want to spend EVEN MORE.
OF course spending is up. We are at war and had to get out of a recession. Du'h! Instead of mindlessly squealling maybe the Donner party fools might put the spending in context AND classify WHAT was spent where.
REALLY intresting how all the hsyterics over spending NEVER bother to consider the impact of manditory Entiltelment spending has inflated spending. USUALY hysterics manipulating the data to validate their preconcived notions rather then making an intellectually serious assesment.
if you read the article, the comparison is to the 94-2000 period, when you had a gop congress and a dem president. What a dem congress would do does not enter into it because there is none, however. The point is having gop president AND congress = more spending than dem president and gop congress, which is contrary to what most here would have expected in 2001.
Check out our federal debt today vs in 2000. How much more in interest alone on the NEW debt since then are we paying each year? It is a huge amount, a decent chunk of the current deficit.
Not sure what who-and-who said about spending during katrina or what-not has to do with anything. What interests me are the NUMBERS. Do you actually listen to those people when they talk? Why?
re tax cuts - this is a positive, though it is offset to some degree by the fact he increased spending at the same time.
you can naysay or talk about what the democrats say till the cows come home, but this gop president is a huge spender on things that have nothing to do with WOT, iraq occupation, or katrina.
"REALLY intresting how all the hsyterics over spending NEVER bother to consider the impact of manditory Entiltelment spending has inflated spending"
not sure what is so confusing about this, from your attitude you would think it was a constitutional requirement. All congress has to do is include in the budget a clause modifying this, and bush (mr one veto) can sign it. problem solved. Obviously the GOP congress and president aren't doing this.