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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (488)	7/5/1999 5:29:00 PM
From: Ellen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

the Reagan recovery Oh, you mean the "Voodoo Economics?"

To: Bill who wrote (488)	7/5/1999 9:02:00 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

And the Reagan recovery amazingly skipped over the recession years during the Bush Administration? Cool! Even Kemp was willing to admit that trickle down didn't/doesn't work. Perhaps it was the biggest deficit in the history of the US that Reagan pulled off. [Much like he did as Gov of California]...just in case you were going to bring up the Democratic Congress myth on budgets...take a look at the numbers...you can pull up the US expenditures/deficit spending of this century and compare them against Democratic/Republican Congressess and you'll find absolutely no correlation; the Executive sets the "tone" for spending. However, compare them against Democratic/Republican Executives and there is a strong correlation...Democratic Presidents have lower deficit spending than Republican presidents. All the data is there all you have to do is look it up... Reagan poured more money at Defense than the Pentagon knew what to do with and the Bush Administration paid the price; I dealt with the budget people at the Pentagon, they made up programs that were a waste and they knew it. How much debt did Reagan ring up? Isn't it odd that before the Reagan election...how terrible deficit spending was but during the Reagan Administration is wasn't so important.... Regards, Jim