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

To: greenspirit who wrote (50368)	10/22/2000 3:57:13 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	Respond to of 769669

Michael, in 1994 I thought the Republicans were finally going to do something to begin a slow restoration of a constitutional republic. Ain't happened. In "The Return of the Living Dead: Federal Programs That Survived the Republican Revolution," cato.org Stephen Moore notes that the 106th Congress is well on its way to becoming the largest-spending Congress on domestic social programs since the late 1970s. "A major reason for all the new spending is the inability or unwillingness of Republicans to eliminate virtually any government program. Many of the more than 200 programs that the Republicans pledged to eliminate in 1995 in their 'Contract with America' fiscal blueprint now have fatter budgets than they had before the changing of the guard," he writes. I still believe there were some sterling candidates sent to Congress then, but the job was just too big. We like to belive that elected representatives exercise some measure of control, but I doubt it. Friedman's "iron triangle" may have grown to be such a thorough cancer on the body politic that it will take an as yet unknown force to dissolve and replace it.