And on the issue of the GOP spending too much
1. the deficit has been decreasing by huge numbers the last few years. So how do we have record government spending with tax cuts and 2 necessary wars against radical Islam? The deficit was much larger during world war 2 and this threat is much greater as there are 50+ Islamic countries while there was only a few axis powers.
2. Deficit for 2006 is 1.9% of GDP which is less than the average for the last 30 years.
3. Most spending is mandatory like Social security , Medicare, Medicaid etc. Bush did try to partially privatize social security but the RINOS, Democrats and the Democrat media stopped him.
4. The democrats are calling for less cuts in Medicaid and voted against them. The democrats are calling for more spending on education, welfare, Medicaid, social programs , embryonic stem cell research. But the Democrat media says the Republicans are the big spenders.
5. Anyone can play with statistics and not take into account the war of civilizations we are in, inflation, population growth , growth of the economy, etc. to make the Republicans look like the big spenders.
6. On cutting spending the Republicans have to fight the Democrats, the media and RINOS just like they fought and lost on social security privatization, Drilling in An-war, tough border enforcement bill that passed the House but was stopped in the Senate, etc. 7. the solution to cutting spending more (discretionary domestic spending is down) is to elect more conservative Republicans in place of the RINOS and gain an overwhelming conservative majority not to elect socialist big government Democrats.
So these points expose the lies of the Democrat media.
Hi rurgan I agree with your points for one of the hallmarks of the Republican policy has been the tax cuts and their driving the growth of the economy has driven up tax revenues to offset the deficit.
I want us to drive success for the Republicans in 06 and after that lets work at lowering government spending and pork like the tranportation bill that was passed this year which was one stuffed little piggy.
And I know I am preaching to the choir here but again we must maintain Republican control so we can have the ability to strive for improvements.
Thanks for a good post and you take care..Kind Regards DN