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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (1043)	2/9/2004 12:02:51 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 173976

Conservatives coming down on Bush: Conservatives and other limited-government types are furious at President George W. Bush for his big-spending ways. One group said the Republican-controlled government is dispensing cash like a "drunken sailor." But in fact, there's nothing spontaneous or accidental about the spending spree. What we're seeing is the sober logic of a changing Republican Party, as well as a changing American psyche, post-9/11 -- from peacetime consumerism to wartime welfarism. Those seeking to measure such changes might dip into Bush's newly released Fiscal Year 2005 budget; its pages offer proof that the era of big government is back again. Those who dislike the trend have been vocal in their opposition. On Jan. 15, six right-leaning groups -- including The Club for Growth, The National Taxpayers Union and Citizens Against Government Waste -- announced that they had made a "major break" with the Bush White House and the Republican-controlled Congress in response to budgeting that had driven discretionary spending up 27 percent in Bush's first three years in office. The Cato Institute calculates that Bush has presided over the largest increases in discretionary spending since President Lyndon B. Johnson's budgets of the late '60s. That's no coincidence. The late '60s were another time of escalating wars overseas and escalating government on the home front. History shows that you can't have one without the other. As the American radical Randolph Bourne lamented during World War I, surveying a similar time of explosive government growth, "War is the health of the state." …The biggest-ticket item is the new prescription drug benefit for seniors. When the president signed the bill into law on Dec. 8, he projected its cost to be $400 billion over 10 years; now that projection has been upped to $540 billion. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19229-2004Feb6.html

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (1043)	2/9/2004 12:03:49 AM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 173976

Where is the Iraqi oil money all going? Was the invasion of Iraq really just about oil? Will Ken Lay talk when he is finally indicted? Who planned the phony energy crisis to coincide with the 2000 election and who called it off when Jeffords switched parties? Who scrubbbed Bush's war records at the base? Was Bush's 1972 cocaine bust hushed up by the family? Did Cheney out the CIA agent? Was Bush warned about 9-11? Was Bush sr. dining with Bin Lauden's brother on 9-11? Who got the Bin laudens out of the country on 9-11? A lot of potential eruptions.