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To: TimF who wrote (186360)	4/9/2004 9:20:45 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576613

Tim, re: 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. After all that semantic crap, can argue with "Bush is a financial disaster"? John

To: TimF who wrote (186360)	4/10/2004 1:34:47 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576613

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. Go back and look at the graph. Whether costs exploded before or during Reagan's watch is unimportant. What's important is the bottom line............budget deficits as a percent of GDP, your favorite parameter, "exploded" under Reagan/Bush I, and again under Bush II. There is no other argument. The GOP is bad for our economic well being period. ted