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To: tejek who wrote (358229)	11/15/2007 6:21:46 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573738

The link you posted is to an article that I posted which pointed out that he was slashing spending in medicare for the elderly and the poor to pay for the war. Except he wasn't slashing spending. His plan was to increase spending at a slightly slower rate. Increases aren't slashes, or even modest cuts, and also the difference between the original planned spending and the plan Bush was pushing was far too small to be called a slash even if it was an actual cut. In other words, spending was increasing rapidly, and Bush gets bashed for spending. At least in this case he was arguing for reducing the rate of increase. In education he got bashed for slashing spending even while he was increasing the rate of spending growth.