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To: RetiredNow who wrote (1007)	7/30/2008 6:06:52 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

The fantasy is thinking that Republicans are for small government, when all the evidence is to the contrary. That much is true. Typically Democrats have been for bigger government and Republicans have been for "we only want to increase government 95% as much as you do". Then Bush went from trailing but still supporting big government, to "leading" on big government. Of course the Democrats still blamed him for not increasing spending enough in many areas. But most of the increase is on auto-pilot no matter who is president and no matter who controls congress. The entitlement spending still grows and grows gobbling up everything in sight. It would be possible to take it off autopilot and carefully guide the course somewhere, but few politicians have even seriously advocating trying (let alone actually trying).