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

To: JDN who wrote (561648)	4/8/2004 5:28:53 AM
From: Doren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Simple. George W Bush. He's the worst thing to happen to America in my lifetime. I don't for one second believe that Bush is for smaller government. And corporations are govenments unto themselves now. I don't like corporations. I like small businesses. And I have several. You can't tell me that times have been better under Republican govenments with a straight face. They both suck but Bush is the worst ever.

To: JDN who wrote (561648)	4/8/2004 8:20:15 AM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

President Bush isn't a BIG GOVERNMENT guy?!? How does a small government President turn a $200 Billion surplus into a $500 Billion deficit. I know the economy has been flagging over the past few years, but still, a $700 Billion increase in federal surplus/deficit ratio certainly isn't a sign of a frugal small government President. Also, do small government Presidents create massive new federal agencies like the Homeland Security Dept., start new social programs like "No Child Left Behind", raise miltary spending by over $100 Billion, create a new $500 Billion + Medicare benefit like a prescription drug plan? President Bush has done things to expand government that a liberal could have never gotten away with in Washington. It's like Nixon all over again. Nixon out liberaled the Democrats in the early 1970s and created massive new government programs and spending. I think Doren is entirely correct that this is all done to help big business. Who do you think is feeding at this government trough of new government spending? It's all Bush's big business buddies. The military, security, and pharmaceutical industries. One of the biggest hypocracies in our society is this notion that the Republicans are for smaller government and frugal spending. I mean geeze, just a quick look at the massive expansion of the federal government and spending under Pres. Nixon/Reagan/Bush Jr. should dispell this notion immediately. Perhaps these increases in government spending and scope can be rationalized, as I'm sure you'll try to argue that all the spending under Bush Jr. is necessary for defense of the nation. But, the frugal (conservative) thing to do would be to cut spending elsewhere or raise the taxes necessary to fund the new spending. The word "conservative" has completely lost it's meaning over the past three decades. What exactly are they conserving? It's certainly not government spending or our financial future.