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At the moment there are more important things, and greater evils, to worry about than the growth of government.

You say that like you know little about history! The Soviets are bankrupt, and W is pushing us more toward it!

I feel sorry for the victims of the storm. I have donated to their care. It is not my fault they chose to live there. It is not my fault if they choose to rebuild there. But, for the Fedrool Gum't to just lay all the bills on me, and my grandchildren, is immoral, AND not a conservative thing to do.

Compassion is one thing the church is supposed to share. Gum't is supposed to build the roads, guard the borders, and tax imports to pay for it all. Boy, have they changed that idea!

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You say that like you know little about history! The Soviets are bankrupt, and W is pushing us more toward it!

Exactly the same thing was said regarding the Reagan deficits. In fact, as a highschooler back in 1988 I was told by my state's Democratic Party Chairman that my grand-children were going to be paying for the Reagan/Bush deficits ...

Less than 10 years later I saw the same guy crowing on TV about how the entire DEBT could be paid off in 10 years (well before my children hit elementary school), thanks to the surplus.

On a simplistic level, Reagan believed that the US economy could outgrow just about any reasonable deficit/debt that the government threw at it. And from the looks of it, even with an additional $200 billion of deficit spending to pay for the hurricane recovery, this year's deficit still won't equal, relative to GDP, some of Reagan's deficits.