Did President Bush have the worst ever Economy and Fiscal Policies?
LadySnowbird asked:
President Bush “The Mother of All Big Spenders”, the conservative think-tank Cato Institute writes that “Sadly, the Bush administration has consistently sacrificed sound policy to the god of political expediency”. Yet when Democrats want to increase spending on domestic issues such as health care for the poor Bush suddenly becomes a “fiscal conservative” accusing them of “working to bring back the failed tax-and-spend policies of the past” and vowing to fight them. But says Cato’s Chris Edwards, “When he gives speeches now, you hear him bashing the Democrats on overspending. It sounds ridiculous, because we know he’s a big spender”. “After running up $9 trillion in new debt – including his flawed Iraq policy – it is astounding that the president is once again lecturing Congress about fiscal responsibility and fiscal priorities,”
President Bush “The Mother of All Big Spenders”, the conservative think-tank Cato Institute writes that “Sadly, the Bush administration has consistently sacrificed sound policy to the god of political expediency”. Yet when Democrats want to increase spending on domestic issues such as health care for the poor Bush suddenly becomes a “fiscal conservative” accusing them of “working to bring back the failed tax-and-spend policies of the past” and vowing to fight them. But says Cato’s Chris Edwards, “When he gives speeches now, you hear him bashing the Democrats on overspending. It sounds ridiculous, because we know he’s a big spender”. “After running up $9 trillion in new debt – including his flawed Iraq policy – it is astounding that the president is once again lecturing Congress about fiscal responsibility and fiscal priorities,”
“Bush doesn’t know how to stop. Like a credit-card thief, the President of the United States is going on a shopping binge and making other people pay.”
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Thanks for the update. But why are you wasting your time on Bush. His term is over at the end of the year. Isn’t it about time you start finding someone else to waste your time hating?
U have to wait for the Democrats to fix things up.
Well said. It’s delusional of him to criticize anyone on spending.
Unfortunately, there are many people who will listen, and without even thinking about it agree, because their hatred of anything but republicans is greater than the need to think and know the truth or reality.
Even fellow republicans are horrified by the out of control spending, but are powerless to stop it since voting against it would be a betryal the party.
Crazy!!!
Let me ask you this question, what in the world would you do, if you were in his shoes, the United States Of America was attacked by a force that walks the streets of this country just like you and I, then these nuts get on an airplane, flies it into WTC and kills three thousand people? Are you going set back and say oh well not much we can about it. War is sad, but if you want the freedom you better be damn willing to fight for it.
People tend to forget (or ignore the fact) that the dot com bubble under Clinton had burst, and the economy was already headed downhill when Bush took it over. All I hear are complaints that Bush is spending like crazy, but he hasn’t taken away from education or welfare to fund the war. He’s kept all the socialist policies of the democrats in place, showing that two points of view can be represented in the government. I doubt the same will be said if a democrat wins the presidency next year.
That honor still goes to Jimmy Carter.