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Fed Spending Up 40 Percent Under Bush
newsmax.com ^ | Friday, Nov. 17, 2006 | NewsMax.com Staff

Posted on 11/17/2006 1:50:24 PM PST by Reagan is King

Federal spending in fiscal year 2006 increased by a whopping 9 percent — the largest rise since 1990 — and has risen more than 40 percent since President Bush took office.

The most recent rise far outpaces inflation — the Consumer Price Index is up only 1.3 percent in the past 12 months.

"The greatest scandal in Washington, D.C., is runaway federal spending,” Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., said after the midterm elections.

In recent years, he points out, the GOP majority "voted to expand the federal government’s role in education, [added new] entitlements, and pursued spending policies that created deficits and national debt.”

The Republicans’ defeat in the elections shows that the outgoing GOP Congress’ attempts "to buy our votes” failed, according to Ed Feulner, president of the Heritage Foundation.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush; congress; governmentspending; outofcontrolspending; porkaddicts; spendingspree
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To: snarks_when_bored

How long will it take people to realize that "Starve The Beast" doesn't work. You can't rely on spending to cut itself by cutting taxes. You *must* cut spending to cut spending. This means you have to sell the public on the importance of cutting spending. I daresay that you should wait on tax cuts until you manage to cut spending. Not only is it more fiscally responsible, but it gives you something to dangle in front of the voters as a reward for their support for responsible fiscal policy.


41 posted on 11/17/2006 2:20:09 PM PST by OldGuard1
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To: theDentist

"However, he cut taxes and Congress kept spending anyway."

Apparently, you've never heard about a Presidential veto. That's okay, George Bush hasn't either.


42 posted on 11/17/2006 2:20:22 PM PST by BW2221
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To: gardencatz; Raymann

not sure why soldiers would care about raymann's vote, nor is voting mandatory in the US, unlike some places, DPRK and Cuba for example.


43 posted on 11/17/2006 2:20:35 PM PST by WoofDog123
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To: Raymann
That's why I and a lot of other Libertarians sat this election out. Blame us if you want but I believe our electors should earn their vote, not just say "I'm not the other guy"

Not this one. I recognized a train wreck was coming, and knew to get off the tracks. Did you vote for anyone? Governor? State Attorney General? Judges? Any conservative ballot measures that could have used your vote? Were they all screwed because of Republican spending? I guess I'm really just "small L".

44 posted on 11/17/2006 2:21:04 PM PST by Squeako (ACLU: "Only Christians, Boy Scouts and War Memorials are too vile to defend.")
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To: xcamel
The headline/story is irrelevant if there is no fixed value to base it on.

Since when did you start expecting responsible and useful reporting from NewsMucks?

45 posted on 11/17/2006 2:21:34 PM PST by r9etb
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To: BW2221

i suspect there was some understanding that congress could get its spending projects passed without complaint if they didn't give him trouble over iraq funding. that certainly appears to have been the outcome, in any event.


46 posted on 11/17/2006 2:21:53 PM PST by WoofDog123
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To: bigbob

Wonder how much it would be up if you take out the war, and costs directly related to Katrina and 9/11?"

Wonder how much it would be up if you took out the "pork Barrel" projects and "earmarks?


47 posted on 11/17/2006 2:22:58 PM PST by BW2221
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To: OldGuard1
You can't rely on spending to cut itself by cutting taxes. You *must* cut spending to cut spending. This means you have to sell the public on the importance of cutting spending. I daresay that you should wait on tax cuts until you manage to cut spending.

Yes, you're correct. I wonder whether the idea of cutting taxes first and then (pretending to try) cutting spending isn't analogous to giving Mexican illegals amnesty first and then (pretending to try) stopping millions more Mexicans from entering the country illegally?

48 posted on 11/17/2006 2:24:33 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: NapkinUser

I'd say "Ficus for President," but since that was Michael Moore's idea, I'm obligated not to support its candidacy.

Hmm, how about "Carpophilus for President"? Carpophilus beetles both eat ficus species, AND won't spend us into debt on needless social programs.


49 posted on 11/17/2006 2:25:53 PM PST by OldGuard1
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To: KoRn

"IMO Mike Pence not getting the Republican leadership spot in the house is a scandal as well."

It's complete and total nonsense, indicative of how poorly the party is performing and failing to come to grips with what happened, and a letdown to all of us.

Pence absolutely should have been Minority Leader. There's no questioning that he steps to the table as a principled conservative.


50 posted on 11/17/2006 2:26:37 PM PST by CheyennePress
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To: Reagan is King
Bush Beats Johnson: Comparing the Presidents--CATO Institute


51 posted on 11/17/2006 2:28:45 PM PST by NapkinUser (Tom Tancredo for president of the United States of America in 2008!)
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To: snarks_when_bored

Deficits should have been a priority Bush Agenda item - among other things. Leardership is determining the agenda and executing. The Bushies have a problem with that "vision thing."


52 posted on 11/17/2006 2:28:46 PM PST by etradervic (Able Danger, Peter Paul Campaign Fraud, Travelgate, Whitewater, Sandy Berger...demand answers!)
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To: kjo

May be we need to ask Jim Robinson to enhance the forum so we can have the posts with some audios. For example in your case when you said “Vote Constitution Party” we should have some majestic music playing in the background to reflect the power of your post (sarcasm beyond belief).


53 posted on 11/17/2006 2:28:46 PM PST by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: Names Ash Housewares
"Here are the facts..."

Where are the rest of the facts? Such as total debt as a percentage of gdp and not just in absolute dollars?


54 posted on 11/17/2006 2:29:33 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: laconic
Bush has let BOTH domestic and military spending (primarily due to the Iraq adventure which some neoconservatives absurdly claimed would cost nothing, it would be paid for in its entirety by Iraqi oil) zoom.

Yes, so very true. Bush started off wrong with the $400,000,000,000.00 Education Bill he let Ted 'Hiccup" Kennedy write. Things went downhill from there with our earmark happy Republican Congress.

One other thing to remember: Even before the Iraq war, even before 9/11, President Bush had to start the rebuilding of the military after the massive (and actual, not theoretical) cuts to the military budget under Klinton.

55 posted on 11/17/2006 2:30:00 PM PST by technomage (Protest Voters are ignorant, immature, selfish people who have no capacity for long term thinking)
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To: Prost1

Dead on.

The easiest to follow and most fundamental tenant of the Contract with America was that laws would apply equally to members of Congress.

When Hastert forgot that... he Republican majority formally eliminated its reason for existence.


56 posted on 11/17/2006 2:33:50 PM PST by rwilson99 (95% of Al-Jazzera Viewers Agree... the world is less safe (for them) since 9/11)
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To: etradervic
They know how to network and make money, though:  the Carlyle Group...(cue Twilight Zone music)...
57 posted on 11/17/2006 2:34:39 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: theDentist

"he cut taxes and Congress kept spending anyway."

Via legislation the President can sign or veto, correct?


58 posted on 11/17/2006 2:35:22 PM PST by Rb ver. 2.0
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To: goldstategop

At least the left wing Socialists in the Democrat party can honestly say that is what their constituents elected them to do.

Republicans... not so much.


59 posted on 11/17/2006 2:35:23 PM PST by rwilson99 (95% of Al-Jazzera Viewers Agree... the world is less safe (for them) since 9/11)
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To: knarf

#21


60 posted on 11/17/2006 2:38:30 PM PST by Rb ver. 2.0
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