LL> 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)   
      
    LL> GWB was only doing what we hired him to do.  I mean, really.   
    LL> Isn't the proper role of government to spend as much of our   
    LL> money as possible in the shortest period of time?  Think   
      
      
    Not in the shortest possible time, but in the most effective   
    manner. If he had rebuilt infrastructure and educated the young   
    it would have paid off in spades. Spending on war is pure   
    economic waste.   
      
    LL> about it.  Bill Clinton left office with a surplus.  Within   
    LL> eight months of taking office, and one month before the   
    LL> terror attacks of 9-11, GWB managed to spend our way into a   
    LL> deficit.   
      
    The 9-11 attacks were a blip on the economic radar. It was the   
    follow up wars that brought this country down. Had he not turned   
    to invading Iraq even that would not have happened.   
      
    Pat Buchanan is wrong about a lot of things, but he was right   
    about one thing. He said, "Perpetual war destroys democracies".   
      
    LL> And eight years later, when GWB finally left   
    LL> office, this country was so much in debt that it took a   
    LL> Democrat to quadruple our spending in order to keep us from   
    LL> going into another Great Depression.  And now, having won a   
      
    Spending went up to almost 25% of GDP under Bush. The deficit   
    went up to $1.6Trillion under Bush. Obama did not quadruple   
    that, he didn't increase it much if at all.   
      
    LL> second term, that same Democrat wants to do it again, thus   
    LL> leading this country to even greater heights than ever   
    LL> before...   
      
    All he has to do is get unemployment below 5% *real*. That is   
    also what he absolutely must do.   
      
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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