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To: TimF who wrote (196874)	8/5/2004 8:21:15 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573562

re: I'm not saying Kerry would do even close to this, but if he increased spending 40% while increasing taxes enough to balance the budget I wouldn't call him a fiscal conservative, or if fiscal conservatism is to be defined just as balancing the budget (and I would not define it that way) then fiscal conservatism is overrated. A balanced budget at 40% higher spending levels would be worse than what we have now. Bull shit. The first thing you do is get to break even, regardless of how you get there. Business 101. Pay as you go, which Kerry has endorsed. The bigger the debt that Bush builds, the larger the pain that future generations will endure. It's not complicated, every family in America faces the same dilemma, everyday. If you can get there with lower spending, great. If you can get there with higher taxes, fine. But you can't get there with higher spending and lower taxes. Bush is a fiscal idiot, and everybody from the conservative think tanks to the ultra liberals realizes that. John