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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (103264)	2/5/2009 5:41:42 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) of 542049

We will disagree on the characterization of the spending Its not really an issue for opinion. It hard and fast facts. The budgets are matters of public record. Last budget submitted by Clinton. $1.9 trillion total spending. $292.3 billion defense spending. Last budget submitted by Bush $3.1 tril, defense spending $515.4 billion, suplmental "War on Terror" spending $145.2 billion. Total defense $660.6 Increase in defense spending $368bil Increase in total spending $1200 bil So increase in non defense spending is $832 bil Bush was not good (in fact awful) on the revenue side. Does "good" in your opinion mean "increases taxes"? Not in mine. As for revenue federal revenue had a healthy increase under Bush. No where near the spending increase, but the spending increased faster than under any president FDR. (FDRs increases dwarf every 20th or 21st century president's Bush II, Carter, Nixon, and Johnson where the other big spenders, but their increases where nowhere near FDRs, which is understandable as FDR was president during the depression and WWII) He had 8 years to balance spending against revenue collection. Tell me he did not do an awful job. He did an awful job, because the the amount he increased spending. Its pretty much impossible to do a good job at balancing spending and revenue when you increase spending by about 50% during your administration.

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