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To: DMaA who wrote (144382)	10/25/2005 6:20:39 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793955

The Republican coalition was a diverse bunch united on one issue - the need for limited government. I wonder about that. It's awfully hard to tell when people are really attached to a principle and when they are just using it as a flag of convenience to cover their real interests. I always suspected that most of the support for small government was actually opposition to big government run by the other guys. Once the other guys were out of power, big government by their own guys suddenly became the natural and rightful order of things. I've been reading you long enough to feel confident that you are attached to the principle as am I. I think we are few in number.

To: DMaA who wrote (144382)	10/25/2005 1:06:41 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

DMA...how much of the 'big government' spending was done to keep the economy afloat .... Remember when Bush came to office, our economy had been seriously heading south, at least since March of 2000. As a recruiter, I knew it...Talked to entirely too many companies and their employees, and knew we were headed for trouble in a giant way. Sure enough, by September of that year, it was openly starting to show. Now, the charts do show what was happening. To be fair, Bush has had many more items to shoulder than most of us really realize, starting from the moment he came into office. Terrible economy, China and the plane mess, and a few months after that --9-11. And that was just the first few months.