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To: tejek who wrote (186094)	4/9/2004 8:47:30 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576586

I see........Johnson created the programs but they waited 15 years under Reagan before they decided to "explode" costwise. No you don't see. I didn't say anything of the sort. They exploded in cost before Reagan came in to office and kept exploding during Reagan's term. What I said was that most of the programs where started by Democrats. I didn't say that there growth waited around until Republicans where in the Oval Office. What you call solid ground is what others call playing semantics or word games. I can't help it if they want to be inaccurate and hypocritical. Whatever views I have (and I have been far less partisan on SI then you have been) doesn't change the fact that the statements that I have been arguing against where simply false. If its not said exactly the way you have determined it should be said, then it is null and void no matter the circumstances. That may work for you but not for me. You can say it any way you want to say it as long as you want to say something that is true. I just complain when its false. For example if you wanted to say something that is both true and also reflects poorly on Bush you could say that he spends too much money, or that he is fiscally irresponsible, or that he has exercise little control over the growth of the government. However if you said something like "he has allowed government spending to grow faster then any president in American history", I would call you on it and I wouldn't be playing word games, or showing excessive partisanship, or controlling how you can say things. To the best of my knowledge (I don't read every post here) no one on this thread has said that President Bush "has allowed government spending to grow faster then any president in American history" but the statements that I complained about where similar to that statement in that they had some indirect distant connection to the real truth (Bush has after all allowed spending to grow a lot) but where themselves completely false. Tim