2003 Budget Completes Big Jump in Spending

WASHINGTON POST ^ | 4/15/02 | Glenn Kessler

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

The Bush administration is poised to complete the biggest increase in government spending since the 1960s' "Great Society," the result of conducting the war on terrorism while substantially boosting the education and transportation budgets, according to a detailed analysis of government spending patterns...

[FloridaGeezer]

Ka-Boom!

[KC_Conspirator]

This article was talked about last night on Drudge. I question some of the premises of article. One glaring inaccuracy was that Reagan increased military spending but cut domestic welfare spending. That simply is not true at all. So after reading that I have to wonder about the accuracy of this article.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Last year's tax cut and the recent recession may result in the first back-to-back years of falling revenue since the late 1950s.

[jpsb]

Bush is just stealing another Democrat issue, big government, pretty soon the democrats will not have any issues left to run against Bush on. Now this is great if you are a Bushy and don't give a damn about anything other then seening Bush win the next election, but if you kinda hoped for a conservative president, well you are screwed.