President Bush has presided over the largest overall increase in inflation-adjusted federal spending since Lyndon B. Johnson. Even after excluding spending on defense and homeland security, Bush is still the biggest-spending president in 30 years. -- Stephen Slivinski, Cato Policy Analysis #543
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. --P.J. O'Rourke
There's nothing dumber than a big spending Republican. In fact, I'm starting to think wwould have been better off letting Bill have another 8 years. As a Democrat, he was downright frugal. It's one thing to have a redistributionist government that simply takes your money and gives it to the undeserving. It's quite another to have the government spend your money on dangerous things, like more bureacrats, homeland snoopiness, and alphabet soup (SEC/FCC/FDA/BATF/NSA) busy-bodying.
I'd like to say I gave up on the Republicans in 1975, and then again in 1989. And it seems like I have to give up on them about every 2 years. The only thing worse, I'd tell myself, is Democrats, and I find it increasingly maddening that these are the only two choices we get. My goodness. What is it going to take to get a constitutional government? (Short of colonial minutemen, that is).
And then the other choice is John Kerry? He got 50 odd million votes, not based on his voting record, which was quite possibly the worst possible of any presidential candidate; but because people felt anything was better than this. Maybe they were right.
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