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

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (504843)	12/6/2003 7:22:05 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"Defense spending has increased by about 33 percent since President George W. Bush took office. During that same period, nondefense discretionary spending -- the portion of the budget that Congress and the president can do something about -- has gone up 28 percent."

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (504843)	12/6/2003 11:53:31 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769667

You never DID come up with that historical example of America "paying off its debt" and creating anything but depression. Thanks anyway, but the rest of us will take the 8.2% growth and the 9% growth in productivity, and recognize George Bush as the author of yet another Reagan Boom. Nancy Reagan said that which is prudent-but we really SHOULD get that great fraud, Roosevelt, off our dime, and Ronaldus Magnus on it. That will also leave the cent for Bush in 2009, when Lincoln's hundred-year run is up...