Hello Bob,   
      
    LL>> Romney's snake oil.  His sales pitch was that he was going   
    LL>> to give everybody a $5 trillion tax cut, and also increase   
    LL>> military spending by $2 trillion.  All without raising   
    LL>> taxes.   
      
   BK>Bush did it. Of course that doubled the national debt, but so   
   BK>what. Deficits don't matter. (Dick Cheney)   
      
   GWB was only doing what we hired him to do.  I mean, really.   
   Isn't the proper role of government to spend as much of our money   
   as possible in the shortest period of time?  Think about it.  Bill   
   Clinton left office with a surplus.  Within eight months of taking   
   office, and one month before the terror attacks of 9-11, GWB managed   
   to spend our way into a deficit.  And eight years later, when GWB   
   finally left office, this country was so much in debt that it took   
   a Democrat to quadruple our spending in order to keep us from going   
   into another Great Depression.  And now, having won a second term,   
   that same Democrat wants to do it again, thus leading this country   
   to even greater heights than ever before...   
      
   --Lee   
      
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