George Bush's Big Government Adventure

Free Republic and Various ^ | 01-30-02 | aaabest

[AAABEST]

With Conservative Like This, Who Needs Liberals?

Let me start off by addressing those who have been bashing(and I do mean bash) me and other well intentioned and well known Freepers as being anti-Bush, Libertarians, from the reform party or whatever. 

I voted for GWB, and I can ping several freepers to this thread that met me in real life at several Bush rallies (with megaphone in hand). I was a member of the Broward County Young Republicans before moving to the West coast of Florida and I was active in Jeb Bush's campaign for Governor. 

I've been on this forum for almost 4 years and anyone that knows me is aware of my conservative views and knows that I'm not a member of the reform party, I'm not a Libertarian (large "l") or any of the other things I and others like me have been accused of.

If you have been engaging in inflammatory rhetoric, bashing long-time, well known Freepers or acting like children because not all of us are enthralled with "Georges Big Government Adventure",  please try to control yourselves, at least while posting on this thread. 

It's not my purpose (at least at this point) to get GWB un-elected, I like him, he has a beautiful wife, he's a good Commander in Chief and he seems like an honest politician. However,  if he keeps ignoring conservative principles and promoting a larger more intrusive government, I and others can no longer continue to support him....on principle. 

We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America.

Above is the Free Republic mission statement.  After his first year, would anyone say that GWB has worked towards this end? I think many conservatives suffer from some kind of Stockholm Syndrome as a result of 8 years of President Clinton, because when I ask many of them what GWB has done for conservatism lately, all I get is that he's not Clinton. 

I know he's not a corrupt, law breaking scoundrel, but is that all that's required? Can our republic survive a cycle where Republicans get into office grow government greatly, interspersed with Democrats who grow government even more greatly with little or no reduction? There are actually people on FR that think all of this growth in government spending is some grandiose 8 year plan by Mr. Bush to fool Democrats so that he can cut government later. What an absurd notion.

If any of the initiatives below originated from the Clinton administration, people on FR would have had a cow. Those "Day in the Life of President Bush" threads garner hundreds of fawning responses, while a thread on how our government is growing out of control will die after 10.

I appeal to anyone reading this to consider the below information without bias. The links will open in a separate window for you convenience.  I will be adding to this information as necessary God bless America, God bless this forum and God bless you.

Click on the Picture of the President (thinking of new ways grow government) for the corresponding article.

	Huge education spending bill (i.e. Federal Local School Board Bribery Act) which liberal Democrats love that doesn't mention a word about choice or local control.
	Food stamps for immigrants.
	Largest spending bill in American History. The first to exceed 2 trillion dollars.
	The Airport Security Bill that completely takes control of over 28,000 screening jobs. Now it seems that they don't even have to be high school graduates either. The big difference, they can't be fired.
	100 million for welfare moms.
	Hugely Expanding Clinton's Amercorps boondoggle that all conservatives railed against.
	Kowtowing to law breaking illegal immigrants by proposing amnesty. Speaking of illegal immigrants who sneak across the border; "And we've got to respect that, seems like to me, and treat those people with respect," he added. "I remind people all across our country: Family values do not stop at the border."
.	38 Billion for a new Homeland Security bureaucracy that allots a 20% increase for border control. Guess what. It goes to our problematic Canadian border, with not a dollar spent on the Mexican border. Read it for yourself
	The  Orwellian "Patriot Act" that gives Federal authorities carte blanche to rifle through all of your digital communications and essentially,  rob your house without notice.
	71.5 billion over 10 years for government health care.
	Not releasing appropriate documents on Clinton and FBI corruption.

 

[AAABEST]

Eeesh. I DIDN't put this in breaking.

[AAABEST]

For the VIPs.

[riley1992]

Although I agree with many points, you know this has the shelf life of a rotten tomato, don't you?

[Sir Gawain]

User #2729? On a forum with 77,235 (minus the banned) registered members, that carries weight in my book. This should be interesting.

[Jhoffa_]

Although I agree with many points, you know this has the shelf life of a rotten tomato, don't you?

ditto..

[cmsgop]

GO BACK TO D.U. NEWBIE!!!!!!!


kidding!

[Sir Gawain]

Fun time.

[AAABEST]

LOL, why do you say that? I'm not trashing anyone.

I actually went outside myself and tried to be as nice as possible. I really went out of character for this one.

It was tough but I tried my best.

[Jhoffa_]

Should I hit him with my purse?

[AAABEST]

A ping to my personal friends who know me for real.

[glegakis]

And not much time or money or even lip service spent on preventing abortionists from continuing to butcher unborn babies at a rate of 4000 per day.

C'mon Dubya, that many Silent Screams should be deafening by now

[incindiary]

Thank you for this!!

Prepare to be called an America hater.

[Zviadist]

Naughty boy, you're not allowed to tell the truth about the Republican Party.

[AM2000]

How do you find out how many users there are on FR?

[Major Matt Mason]

Yep, there are a few purple Kool-Aid drinkers at this site. The time for "we're glad he isn't Gore" statements has come and gone. Bush has been President for a year, now, so the euphoria over the hard-fought victory of the 2000 election should long since have dissipated for conservatives.

I'm willing to hold my fire a little until I see the actual budget, but last night (and this month) wasn't very encouraging. While W didn't present the laundry list of items that Clinton did in his last couple of SOTU speeches, it was still enough to make any true conservative cringe.

[cmsgop]

Should I hit him with my purse?

Sure,.....but make sure you take the Tampons out of the side pocket,....they can leave a mark you know.

[Sir Gawain]

What it boils down to for any true conservative, is how we roll back governmental largesse. The Repubs scream that the Libertarians are just helping get Dems elected and that Libertarians can't win a big election (which has been true) because their ideas are not mainstream. The Libertarians scream that electing Repubs just helps continue the cycle of bigger government and that the Repub argument of incremental cutbacks is nonexistent (which is true also).

Realistically/pessimistically, I don't think it can be rolled back. The experiment failed.

[A.J.Armitage]

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[cmsgop]

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