Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In fact, no recent President has increased government size and >> government entitlements more than George Bush (the 2nd). > > That's just ridiculous. And since you don't ever back up the BS you > spew you think you can just say whatever enters your mind. >
If by "ridiculous" you mean "true" then you're right. That said I'm pretty lazy and fairly indifferent, but I'm always hopeful that facts will change people. So, with that spirit in mind, here's how I'm walking that knife-edge of motivation: (1.) A 5-second search in The Economist (I was there anyway) turned up: "In America, George Bush did not even go through a prudent phase ...The result of his guns-and-butter strategy was the biggest expansion in the American state since Lyndon Johnsons in the mid-1960s. He added a huge new drug entitlement to Medicare. He created the biggest new bureaucracy since the second world war, the Department of Homeland Security. He expanded the federal governments control over education and over the states ... Under Mr Bush 1,000 pages of federal regulations were added in each years of his presidency ... The Bush administration engaged in a massive programme of telephone tapping before the Supreme Court slapped it down ... Mr Bushs energy bill was so influenced by lobbyists that John McCain dubbed it the No Lobbyist Left Behind act." (2.) A 5-second google search turned up a graph from Bush's first term showing him already ahead of everyone but Nixon/Ford & LBJ: http://www.independent.org/newsroom/news_detail.asp?newsID=31 (3.) The same 5-second google search turned up this from the Washington Times: We have now presided over the largest increase in the size of government since the Great Society, said Sen. John McCain, the Republican candidate vying to replace Mr. Bush in the White House, during the first presidential debate. That, in fact, was an understatement. No president since FDR who offered a New Deal to pull the nation out of the Great Depression and then fought World War II has presided over as rapid a growth [as GWB] in government when measured as a percentage of the total economy. " http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/19/big-government-gets-bigger/ Cool huh? So you're wrong on 3 counts: (a.) Very occasionally I take the time to back-up the BS I spew. (as long as we agree that mostly I don't care) (b.) GWB was, in fact, a big-government liberal by any measure. (c.) Some things that enter my mind I don't know how to spell so i don't say them. usually. seck ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:337721 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
