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To: M. Thatcher
Your graph is accurate; but it provides only expenditures - and conveniently omits ANY INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT WAS COMING IN.

And you're back to your red herring. Rudy rapidly increased the size, expense and expenditures of government, but he's still a "fiscal conservative" because there was enough money available for him to get away with it.

225 posted on 03/18/2007 12:18:17 AM PDT by Mojave
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To: Mojave
Rudy rapidly increased the size, expense and expenditures of government, but he's still a "fiscal conservative" because there was enough money available for him to get away with it.

But where did that money come from? His astoundingly successful fiscally conservative policies.

Look, if you just looked at the increase in my personal spending over the past ten years, with your half-of-the-picture view, you'd be arguing that I'm bankrupt. But my INCOME has increased exponentially in that same time frame, so my spending is totally responsible. One is intellectually dishonest to examine spending absent an examination of income.

Rudy, as did Reagan, employed fiscally conservative policies to unleash growth, which increased the take to the treasury. Business exploded, hirings exploded, the tax revenues poured in. That's how fiscal conservatism works.

229 posted on 03/18/2007 12:30:36 AM PDT by M. Thatcher
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