One important note, all that was before Obama became president. He spent more in two years than all the other presidents combined.
. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sam <[email protected]> wrote: >> > 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:337733 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
