On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 09:12:36PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Only anarchists believe that government should not exist, and American > conservatives & libertarians are most emphatically *not* anarchists. > They more or less believe in a limited Federal government.
So when do they start practicing what they preach? Within my lifetime, Reagan put the US $3 trillion dollars into the hole, the first Bush added another trillion dollars and the largest tax increase in American history, the current Bush proposes increased millitary spending and shifting the tax burden on the poor and the single largest increase in federal staff (Department of Homeland Security, with most of it in the Transportation Safety Administration). Oddly, wasn't it under the Clinton administration that we saw an increase in human services and still turned a surplus without increasing taxes? Seems like that's the kind of economics we should be aiming for; hopefully we'll return to something like that before the tax-and-spend conservatives kill us economically and socially. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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