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]

Friends of vererens.

[cmsgop]

OMG!

[Jim Robinson]

"I and others can no longer continue to support him....on principle."

If you do not want to support Bush, who are you going to support?

[DLfromthedesert]

Yes, and Sean Hannity scoffed at me when I said these people should be professionals. If they were law enforcement offficials, they wouldn't have to search every single one of us, but we can't allow any profiling, can we?

[Ben Ficklin]

You exist at the very, very fringe of the political spectrum. Your ideal presidential candidate would recieve >1% of the vote.

[AAABEST]

Ping for Second Amendment workhorses.

[UberVernunft]

(+) Food stamps for immigrants.

Presumably this means *legal* immigrants.

(+) Food stamps for legal immigrants.

(-) Food stamps for illegal immigrants.

[woofie]

If you do not want to support Bush, who are you going to support?

How about "Hose" ..."Support Hose" has a nice ring to it...

[TightSqueeze]

It's not my purpose (at least at this point) to get GWB un-elected...<

No need Bush will do that all on his own, Like his father before him, GWB will over the course of his presidency alienate all his conservative support. He has already received every vote he will ever receive from me.

[A.J.Armitage]

Ah, but is he right?

[DoughtyOne]

Jim, one of my dreams about ten years ago was the abolishment of the DOE. Perhaps that was childish, but I had my reasons. Not only are we not doing that, but we are throwing $40 billion more at it.

I realize there's nobody out there to vote for. What are we to do? Do we allow our boys to take us the last step of the way into full on raging socialism, just because they're our boys? Now we have something that wreaks of Hillary Healthcare? What is going on here?

[ATrueConservativeMan]

Can someone please name one-JUST ONE- program Bush has proposed to cut out of the budget?

[UberVernunft]

What it boils down to for any true conservative, is how we roll back governmental largesse.

** giggle **

It's kind of cute to read these sentiments.

Sorry to be so cynical, but I don't think it's ever going to happen.

[Villiany_Inc]

I voted for GWB. He's done some good things, done some bad things, and really has yet to promote what I would consider my conservative beliefs. All I can say is that it could be worse... (how sad is that ?)

But I dont think that its hopeless. I believe in the original system, and think we just need to cut-off a lot of the 'for the betterment of society' causes.

[Sir Gawain]

The FreeRepublic Party?

[Ben Ficklin]

Idealistically or realistically?

[UberVernunft]

"If you do not want to support Bush, who are you going to support?"

How about "Hose" ..."Support Hose" has a nice ring to it...

He/she/it has my vote!

[kylaka]

Now one would have to believe Bush is going to do everything he proposed. I for one think he is trying to out Clinton Clinton. If he gets a republican Senate, he may actually get something meaningful done. Like privitizing Social Security for one, and drilling ANWR for two. Getting tax revenues from 25% of GDP back down below 20% of GDP wouldn't hurt either. But none of that will happen with the obstructionist senate we currently have.

[eccl1212]

"oops I posted this in "breaking news" whenit was really just a vanity post, with no corresponding news article... "

...right. Who do you think you are? Britney "oops I did it again" Spears?

I must admit it takes balls to post YOUR opinion, in breaking news, as an ARTICLE... and then say oops.

By the way... THIS IS NOT BREAKING NEWS AND SHOULD BE MOVED TO OPINIONS AND VANITIES CATEGORY....

Hee hee.