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To: bentway who wrote (349098)	8/30/2007 1:12:49 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1577883

lololol until the next pres of so when there are more people in the country. what BDS tripe.

To: bentway who wrote (349098)	8/31/2007 12:56:25 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1577883

"It seems safe to conclude that George W. Bush will go down in history as the biggest taxer and the biggest spender ever," Quite true, just as Clinton was before him and the next president will be after him, and the next one after that. Nominal dollar terms aren't a good way to compare the spending habits of different presidents. Real dollars is better but still would have almost every president be higher on the list than the president before him (and since the US government spends more money than any organization in human history, each president becomes "the biggest spender in the history of man") Percentage increase of real spending might be a good measure. Or percentage of GDP spent. By neither measure is Bush the biggest spender. None of which means he doesn't spend to much, he clearly does (sure he doesn't have sole responsibility for it, but he has more than any other single person), or that he isn't a big spender (he certainly is and to a fault), but "biggest spender ever", is either meaningless (if your using nominal dollars spent as your measure), not very meaningful (if your using real dollars), or not true (if your using % increase in real spending, or percentage of GDP spent).