Federal spending soars under Bush's watch

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/7406148.htm

WASHINGTON - President Bush came to office saying he was a fiscal conservative, but federal spending has skyrocketed on his watch. And it's not just the Pentagon that's getting more federal dollars.

Overall spending is up by at least 16 percent since he took office, far more than the 2 percent average annual inflation rate over the same period. According to one recent analysis, the government now spends $20,000 a year for every household in America, the most since World War II. In the meantime, the $236 billion federal surplus that Bush inherited in January 2001 has turned into a $400 billion-plus deficit.

On Monday, Bush will usher in another big new spending program by signing Medicare legislation that creates a prescription-drug benefit for senior citizens at an estimated cost of $400 billion over the next 10 years.
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Nice to see someone notice for a change.


"Spending is up across the board," said Brian Riedl, a budget expert at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research center. "In the past year and a half, we've had the biggest education bill in history, we've had the biggest farm bill in history and now we're about to have the biggest expansion of the Great Society."

[GOPBasher]

1. This really makes me wonder why real conservatives still like Bush.

:shrug:

[phillybri]

2. John McCain was ALL OVER Bush for this on Faux News Sunday....

He was PISSED!!!!

[reprobate]

3. Do they? Seems some of them are starting to bitch at his administration

[donotpassgo]

4. Because Jesus appointed him King.

n/t

[frank frankly]

9. yes, it was quite an endorsement

LOL

[bluestateguy]

5. Prediction: Libertarian nominee will win at least 1%

It may even cancel out the Nader/Green vote.

[Lefty48197]

6. Bush is a big F-ing liar

just like all the right wingers.
Ronald Reagan and Bush The Prequel told us for 12 years that they were fiscally responsible. They lied. All thinking people either knew it from the start, or they figured it our pretty quickly. Only the right wingers still choose to believe the lies about Republican "fiscal responsibility".

[ozone_man]

7. The tragedy is that this money

could have been used to create jobs and health care instead of a tax cut for the rich and an Iraq war. Now he has spent his wad and we go down the tubes from here.

[annxburns]

8. I am telling you ...

... this is a great GE line to use. Dean, with his record of balanced budgets, could really hammer the shrub on this ....

[pansypoo53219]

10. unfortunately

all the money has gone to his contributors and not to america.

[peacetalksforall]

11. They want to spend and they want to lower you taxes and

they want to reduce government and come up with a flat tax.

Magicians? Or destroyers of our country?

[Gloria]

12. Lou Dobbs--opening of show tonight, with voice over:

"The Republican Party has lost its way" after a list of spending ...

[dusty64]

13. Those taxcut and

spend rethugs, ya gotta love em.

[ignatius]

14. The article from the Christian Science Monitor, also says that

over half of the spending increases are unrelated to defense and 9-11.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1201/p16s01-coop.html

Pigs at the trough, big business getting its "welfare" check from the Bushites. I wonder if they will drive up in a cadillac or a Humvee to pick up their checks.