To: Stand Watch Listen
Bush the conservative? Before he was nominated I said that he wasn't a conservative.
To: Stand Watch Listen
Don't you just love it when politicians of either party visit city or town x and proclaim:
"I am so proud to bring z million federal dollars to help the people of this community"
?
Such proclamations should be banned until penalty of jail.
Until the politicians stop feeling so good about their spending they sure aren't going to stop doing it. :(
8 posted on
12/06/2002 8:33:59 AM PST by
cgbg
To: Askel5
To: Stand Watch Listen
With the 2003 federal budget almost done, theres now a price tag for this 2000-2003 spending spree: $782 billion in new spending. Not $782 billion in total spending, mind you, but $782 billion above what Washington spent in the previous four years. Eventually, taxes will need to be raised by more than $5,000 per household to pay for it. With the exception of World War II, on a per-household basis, 2000-2003 will become the largest four-year federal spending spree in American history. Thank goodness Bush is giving the SEC .85 billion dollars to keep an eye on evil corporations. But nobody needs to keep an eye on the government. We can trust them. And in related news, the accounting oversight board voted themselves half million dollar salaries. There's a new tone in Washington.
To: Stand Watch Listen
How did Congress and the president do it? Did they carefully assess the nations needs and then decide that one or two national priorities were worth an extra $782 billion? They looked at what votes were for sale and then how much they could pay for them with other people's money.
Its a classic case of death by a thousand blows -- record spending increases for dozens of programs, none by itself fatal but collectively lethal.
A billion here, a billion there. Before you know it, that adds up to real money.
To: Stand Watch Listen
Many lawmakers have tried to blame Sept. 11th-related defense spending. But new defense spending represents just 21 percent of the $782 billion total spending increase, and less than a quarter of that increase can be attributed directly to the war on terrorism. The GOP should be ashamed. (And this thread should have 1000 replies by now, though I'm not surprised it doesn't.)
Rolling back decades of governmental largesse bump.
20 posted on
01/16/2003 7:41:46 AM PST by
FOMTY
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