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.

 

[TLBSHOW]

you do not have to serve it is not a law here

[DLfromthedesert]

YES!!!! And many of the newly Federalized Airport workers who are patting our bodies down and going through our personal stuff are not even citizens!!! But we're supposed to smile like good little sheeple and thank them for keeping us safe, even if they don't have any idea what they are doing!!!

[Texaggie79]

I'm already having a fun time on the other bush bash thread

[AAABEST]

Carnivore bait Friends.

[meenie]

Good points. It goes back to the party. The Republican elite are just as big government as the Democrats. You have to get down to the grassroots and away from the beltway to get to the conservatives.

[anniegetyourgun]

Seems everyone around here thinks your post won't last. I think it fits right in here on FR.

[cmsgop]

You are user 48,280

[Mr.E]

Hehe Great HTML !! I have surrendered. I belive in nothing. Even Rock and Roll

[Sir Gawain]

hehe

[kdf1]

Ping from another conservative who votes Republican...I would like to vote for a principled conservative if the opportunity should arise.

[seattlesue]

One of the more worthwhile and thoughtful vanities. I would like to add, Bush did not rescind Clinton's last minute land grab EOs. I actually felt crushed when he refused to rescind them. I feared then the writing was on the wall as to his conservative credentials.

[cmsgop]

He does give Great HTML!!!!!

[seattlesue]

One of the more worthwhile and thoughtful vanities. I would like to add, Bush did not rescind Clinton's last minute land grab EOs. I actually felt crushed when he refused to rescind them. I feared then the writing was on the wall as to his conservative credentials.

[blackie]

Judge GWB after he has served eight years.

[AAABEST]

Thank you m'am. I had you on one of my "friends" ping list but you showed up first.

Jim won't pull it, his pragmatic side might scowl a bit, but the side that brought him to create FR will like it.

[Mr.E]

Remember It was Ralph Nader that put Bush in the White House. Better hope he runs again...

[Major Matt Mason]

And many of the newly Federalized Airport workers...

Would these be the same federal workers that let someone sprint through the SF Airport today without ever catching him? I believe these people are now federal workers, aren't they?

[TLBSHOW]

cool

[Jhoffa_]

Okay!

[AAABEST]

Ping to some posters that I really like.