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

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (554961)	3/22/2004 4:52:21 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Re: 'make no sense at all'. Really? I just call 'em the way I see 'em... (not necessarily the way politicians would like to spin 'em.) Do you wish to argue any of the points I made? "Big Government, big spending fiscal Liberal" >>> Size (and intrusiveness) of federal government has continued unabated under this current administration. Size is now at post WW II high. Largest bureaucratic expansion of the government since LBJ enacted. Discressionary federal spending rising at a rate some 50% higher then even Clinton averaged... (to say nothing about the rest of the budget). "...with Theocratic establishmentarian impulses --- and a preference for unbalanced budgets and Puritanism." >>> Conscious decision made to 'make government more friendly to religion' (which, in practice, means 'make it easier for tax money to go to religions')... largest unbalanced budgets since Reagan, and deficits projected out beyond the visible horizon. The CBO estimated just last week that only 4% of the current accounts deficit is still attributable to the 2001 recession, while the balance is directly assigned to higher spending levels and changes in revenue policy. >>> Re: 'Puritanism' ... ban on stem cell research (perhaps forgoing in favor of foreigners such as Great Britain one of the emerging industries of the future --- let alone the tremendous potential advances for science and health)... ban on birth control in the (disease-ridden and over-populated) 'third world'... 'Culture Wars' advanced by yahoos in the government... gross restrictions on liberties our founding fathers left to us in trust (protection against search without warrant, imprisonment without charge or even access to the courts, claim by the Imperial President that he has a 'right' to arrest even American citizens and hold them indefinitely on foreign soil without charges ever being brought....)