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To: Road Walker who wrote (206727)	10/15/2004 3:20:03 PM
From: brian1501	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 1573718

What about Bush, is he not a conservative like he says? He's never vetoed a spending bill, unlike the tax and spend liberal Clinton. Bush pushed through the largest new entitlement since Johnson. I'll agree he spends too much money, but it's clear to me that we have a better chance of spending less under Bush with a Rep congress than under Kerry with potential gridlock, or <gasp>, with a Dem congress. Both of them say they are going to slash the defecit, why do you trust Kerry with his record the opposite over Bush who inherited a recession, had a huge terrorist attack, and had to pay for several wars? The first place to cut spending is to get the hell out of Iraq. This is totally naive. We're there (if you agreed with the reasoning or not), now we need to finish the job. Then you can start working on the pork. But if you don't have the fiscal discipline to decrease spending, you ought to at least have the moral courage to raise taxes to pay the bills, and not pass them on (with interest) to future generations. Why on earth would you raise taxes during a recession/recovery? How dumb is that? It's been shown over and again that you make more revenue from the expansion lower taxes bring to the economy than you would from the revenue you gained by raising the taxes (and killing the economy). Security comes first, then paying off the credit card. In both cases, Bush is the better choice. Brian