If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

Bush is the biggest spender since LBJ

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.

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

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Discretionary spending went up in Bush's first term by 48.5 percent, not adjusted for inflation, more than twice as much as Bill Clinton did (21.6 percent) in two full terms, Slivinski reports.

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General claims Bush gave 'marching orders' on aggressive interrogation at Guantanamo

More than 100,000 pages of newly released government documents demonstrate how US military interrogators "abused, tortured or killed" scores of prisoners rounded up since Sept. 11, 2001, including some who were not even suspected of having terrorist ties, according to a just-published book.

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President Bush gave "marching orders" to Gen. Michael Dunlavey, who asked the Pentagon to approve harsher interrogation methods at Guantanamo, the general claims in documents reported in the book.

The ACLU also found that an Army investigator reported Rumsfeld was "personally involved" in overseeing the interrogation of a Guantanamo prisoner Mohammed al Qahtani. The prisoner was forced to parade naked in front of female interrogators wearing women's underwear on his head and was led around on a leash while being forced to perform dog tricks.

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Is there any doubt 'we've been had'?

What a disgraceful presidency.

The only thing more disgraceful is the blind support he continues to receive from so many of our fellow Americans.

Shame.

Shame.

Shame.

Let's hope we can recover from the mess that is George W. Bush.

Well, not that any more doubts about Bushs true agenda should exist here on ATS, but here is another new article:

"I really can't believe the president wants us to cut funding for cancer research; cut children from the rolls of Head Start (preschool program for children from low-income families)," said Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, who steered the bill through the Senate.

Noting Bush's proposed reductions in home heating assistance for the poor, Harkin added, "All I can assume is that the president is getting some very bad advice."

The Senate had to fight hard against the threat of a Bush veto to bring some funding for other things than his holy war.


[edit on 24-10-2007 by Copernicus]

reply to post by Copernicus


We're not idiots. This DIP S is asking for another 50 billion dollars to get troops "bullets and armor." When are we going to put our foot down as a people?

reply to post by DeadFlagBlues


What's your bet that 50 billion dollars will never make it into 'bullets and armor' for the political tools, err, our army?

He got into presidency because of vote manipulation and tax cuts. He continues his presidency with rampant spending and cutting health care and other helpful bills. Would someone who really cared about his country do this? Nah, he's not in control anyways.

All this proves is that Bush is definitely not conservative. :shk: