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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DizzyG who wrote (57659)	1/15/2009 3:50:55 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224759

Boehner says the nation cannot "borrow and spend it's way to prosperity" Did he tell that to Ronald Reagan and George W Bush? They were the two biggest advocates of borrow and spend. firstread.msnbc.msn.com

To: DizzyG who wrote (57659)	1/15/2009 4:44:12 PM
From: MJ	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224759

See the debt that the Democrat Contolled Board of Supervisors left Fairfax County in Virginia (the Northern most county just across the river from Washington, D.C.} Time for new leadership for sure in Fairfax. Failure to Prepare Fairfax County is facing a fiscal train wreck. Despite doubling the taxes in Fairfax over the past 7 years we have a $650 million dollar shortfall, which is larger than the budgets of the Police, Fire and Rescue, Sheriff, Libraries, Parks and Health Department combined! During my opponent's term as Budget Chair, the County has failed to prepare for bad times. Economic fluctuations are a natural to cycle between economic prosperity and downturns. Our County has been in similar situations before, yet in her 17 years as budget chairman, my opponent has done nothing to prepare the County for the budget shortfall we currently face. While other localities are facing shortfalls as well, none are as large as Fairfax County's in part because we failed to prepare: · Spending recklessly during good times. In the past six years, because of unrestrained spending our budget has grown over a billion dollars more than the growth in population increase or inflation. As budget chairman, my opponent has squandered high tax revenues in good years on misplaced priorities, like over $200 million in the past two years on government housing and housing subsidies for those making as much as $99,000· " Just a note from MJ on this: That is just the beginning of info provided by a candidate for the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. Being Chairman of the FC Board of Supervisors is equivalent to being the Mayor of New York City or Washington D.C. mj