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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (155141)	4/2/2003 7:35:20 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Respond to of 164684

No, you've got to be kidding. Government spending before Bush's first budget had been rising at something like 8 1/2% per year for several years, a period when inflation was half that at most. Yes, a lack of spending discipline.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (155141)	4/3/2003 3:49:40 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

Are the crooks in Corporate America still getting away with too much...? Message 18790961

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (155141)	4/3/2003 8:45:33 PM
From: Alomex	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

And Bush didn't create the deficit, a lack of spending discipline while things were good, There was a time when somebody saying such an utterly false statement would lose all credibility and never again be taken seriously. But Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the Righteous Right brought in the reality of Orwell's 1984, where you can state the most obvious falsehoods outright and not suffer from it. Clinton left a trillion dollar surplus, and this becomes, in the twisted words of Buschman "lack of spending discipline", and somehow we chalk it up to a "difference in ideologies" and move on. Bush implemented a major tax cut, and once again in Buschman's words this becomes "drying out of tax revenues". Yes, Mr. Buschman...and war is peace, and freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength.