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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: jlallen who wrote (476207)10/15/2003 1:15:41 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
"Read the Constitution....Congress spends the money...."

Correct.... and the President not only has great influence over the appropriations process usually (because of the carrots and sticks he can swing in the districts of Congressmen, and his pull with the public), but he also has the option of VETOING WASTEFUL SPENDING THAT HE DISAGREES WITH!

How many times has Bush II exercised his veto to try to halt wasteful spending?

Reagan himself didn't use his veto until late in his first term.

Also, if one looks at the gross amounts (the bottom spending line) in the budgets that Reagan PROPOSED each year to Congress... and the budgets that Congress proposed (let's just take the Dem's proposed budgets during the Reagan years for this comparison) one will see that there was practically no difference in the over-all spending figures proposed (although each side had their own pet projects, and places they wanted to spend the taxpayer's money in).

In actual fact, over the eight years of his two terms, the opposition's budget proposals were a little LESS than Reagan's.

So please don't come in here with that bogus 'fiscal responsibility' talk for either Reagan, or Bush II.

They are both spendthrifts --- but Dubya takes the cake for fiscal irresponsibility so far.
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