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I wanted to defend the Republican party against the allegation that the GOP has spent more than ever. I haven't seen any one do this. And we wonder why the Democrats won. Overall government spending is at the average for the last 40 years as a percentage of GDP and the deficit has actually been going down now for the past few years. But the liberal media says that Republicans have grown the government and spent more than anyone ever before. Also Republicans had a thin majority in both houses and several RINOS that obstructed efforts like social security privatization

Bush is not a conservative on a lot of issues like the entitlement issue you bring up. Bush gave the liberal media ammunition to take away the issue of "smaller government" and "fiscal responsibility" from the Republican party so that the socialist Democrats actually have the advantage on that now. But Bush is not every Republican and Bush's liberalism on some issues should not be used to generalize Republicans like the liberal media has done. There are some good Republicans out there.

Bush and Republicans did differ from the Democrats on one very crucial issue,private school vouchers.
Privatizing government schools would have shown the American people that government planning (socialism) doesn't work and that free market competition does. The good schools would have succeeded and spread their methods of teaching. the bad schools would have been weeded out. People would have wanted to send their children to the good schools.

The collectivist/Democrat idea of empowering government with increasing economic control will inevitably lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of communist USSR and communist Cuba. This idea has to be killed.Privatizing the schools might have taught people that government is not the solution to our problems but that government is the problem.

A lot of people wanted change. And this is just some of kind of change that is coming with the Democrats: 1. Amnesty for illegals which Republicans stopped. 2. Socialized Hillary style government run health-care. I don't recall Bush or the GOP pushing for this but you can bet the Democrats want this. This will go a long way to turning the U.S.A into a totalitarian socialist state. We are on the road to socialism/slavery : The Road To Serfdom .

Bush/Kennedy "No Child Left Behind Act".

WP

The White House released budget figures yesterday indicating that the new Medicare prescription drug benefit will cost more than $1.2 trillion in the coming decade, a much higher price tag than President Bush suggested when he narrowly won passage of the law in late 2003.

Bush and the Republicans took us one more step in that direction with the new drug entitlement. People take steps in the direction they want to go, right?

Socialized Hillary style government run health-care. I don't recall Bush or the GOP pushing for this but you can bet the Democrats want this.

I am afraid the Republicans want this too and I agree with you if we allow it to happen, that is the end of the American experiment in freedom.