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Skriven 2008-10-09 20:34:00 av Bob Klahn (1:124/311)
Ärende: LIb/conservative spending
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Ok, this was in another echo, and I felt it was worth sharing.
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 >> The Federal budget is already at $3T per year but that
 >> isn't enough for liberal democrats.

 Those liberal democrats managed to push down the debt load,
 debt to GDP ratio, every year from the end of WW2 until Reagan
 took office. That was through good economy and bad, peace and
 war.

 Your most conservative presidents since WW2 have pushed the debt
 load back up to 67% of the GDP. They managed to wipe out decades
 of improvement with nothing to show for it. Hell, FDR and Truman
 managed to win a world war in 4 years. Bush can't even win a
 'bush league' war in 7.

 Republican Reagan left Bush I a budget that spent 21.2% of the
 GDP. Republican Bush I left Clinton a budget that spent 21.4% of
 the GDP. Democrat Clinton left Bush II a budget that spent 18.4%
 of the GDP. Republican Bush is going to leave his successor a
 budget that is going to spend 20.7% of the GDP.

 Clinton increased federal spending by $455 bill. Bush has
 increased federal spending by over $1.1 trillion. IOW, more than
 2.5 times what Clinton did.

 All these figures from the Bush Admin Budget History File from
 the 2009 budget.

 Next from the Statistical Abstract 2008 edition.

 Clinton inherited a poverty rate of 15.1%. He left Bush a
 poverty rate of 11.7%. The rate was 12.7% as of 2005.

 Going up!

 The good news is, there are fewer uninsured today than just a
 few years ago. The bad news is, they didn't get health
 insurance, they went on medicaid. Govt insurance, Socialized
 medicine.

 Your republicans spent this country's wealth far more than those
 "liberal" democrats.

 And your latest incarnation of a republican president is
 spending us so deep in debt it may yet bankrupt this country.

 Bush has given us more socialized medicine, socialized the
 banking failures, is socializing the Wall Street failures, and
 will probably socialize more before he leaves Washington.

 So, tell us again who wants so spend what?

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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