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

To: Peter O'Brien who wrote (475208)	10/12/2003 8:40:04 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Your hero Bush is the biggest spender in history. And the biggest deficit spender. Makes Grey Davis look like a fiscal saint.

To: Peter O'Brien who wrote (475208)	10/12/2003 8:45:09 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<<The federal government takes in about 17% of the GDP today. This compares to 20% of GDP at the height of World War II. What percent of GDP do you propose that the federal government suck out of the private economy today? More than during World War II?>> We're more socialist now than we were before WWII. All of the Western democracies are. And the post WWII period has been more prosperous and peaceful for all of us. Aren't you willing to consider that it's at least possible that a relatively high tax society with relatively broad social programs (Pre WWII America compared to post WWII America) is actually a more successful model? I mean the evidence really seems to support that. Steve Dietrich