Bush is the biggest spender since LBJ--McClatchy Newspapers

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I missed this ----it is a few days old----but with all the Bush Bashing Congress for spending--this is worth passing around to all you know.




http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/v-print/story/20767.html

Posted on Wed, Oct. 24, 2007
Bush is the biggest spender since LBJ
David Lightman | McClatchy Newspapers

last updated: October 23, 2007 07:34:58 PM

WASHINGTON — George W. Bush, despite all his recent bravado about being an apostle of small government and budget-slashing, is the biggest spending president since Lyndon B. Johnson. In fact, he's arguably an even bigger spender than LBJ.

“He’s a big government guy,” said Stephen Slivinski, the director of budget studies at Cato Institute, a libertarian research group.

The numbers are clear, credible and conclusive, added David Keating, the executive director of the Club for Growth, a budget-watchdog group.

“He’s a big spender,” Keating said. “No question about it.”

Take almost any yardstick and Bush generally exceeds the spending of his predecessors.

When adjusted for inflation, discretionary spending — or budget items that Congress and the president can control, including defense and domestic programs, but not entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare — shot up at an average annual rate of 5.3 percent during Bush’s first six years, Slivinski calculates.

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1. because, hey, it's not even his money... it's other people's money

and deficits don't matter. :grr: :sarcasm:

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2. good graph at site also

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3. This country cannot survive another president from Texas...pass an amendment!