The notion that the modern Republican party is any different or that they are "fiscally responsible" is a joke.  Per the Cato Inst.:

President Bush has presided over the largest overall increase in inflation-adjusted federal spending since Lyndon B. Johnson. Even after excluding spending on defense and homeland security, Bush is still the biggest-spending president in 30 years.



Total government spending grew by 33 percent during Bush’s first term. The federal budget as a share of the economy grew from 18.5 percent of GDP on Clinton’s last day in office to 20.3 percent by the end of Bush’s first term.

The Republican Congress has enthusiastically assisted the budget bloat. Inflation-adjusted spending on the combined budgets of the 101 largest programs they vowed to eliminate in 1995 has grown by 27 percent.


Inflation is growing faster than in the last quarter century, banks are closing, foreclosures are sky high, the deficit and national debt are out of control, oil is $140, gas is $4.30/gal, the dollar is low, we are in 2 wars-one of which we don't have enough troops to prevent our outposts from being raided by superior numbers-ALL THANKS TO THE BUSH AMINISTRATION- I'll gladly take Clinton, Bush I, or Reagan over this president-embarrasing!

URAHYPOCRITE wrote:The notion that the modern Republican party is any different or that they are "fiscally responsible" is a joke.  Per the Cato Inst.:

President Bush has presided over the largest overall increase in inflation-adjusted federal spending since Lyndon B. Johnson. Even after excluding spending on defense and homeland security, Bush is still the biggest-spending president in 30 years.



Total government spending grew by 33 percent during Bush’s first term. The federal budget as a share of the economy grew from 18.5 percent of GDP on Clinton’s last day in office to 20.3 percent by the end of Bush’s first term.

The Republican Congress has enthusiastically assisted the budget bloat. Inflation-adjusted spending on the combined budgets of the 101 largest programs they vowed to eliminate in 1995 has grown by 27 percent.


Inflation is growing faster than in the last quarter century, banks are closing, foreclosures are sky high, the deficit and national debt are out of control, oil is $140, gas is $4.30/gal, the dollar is low, we are in 2 wars-one of which we don't have enough troops to prevent our outposts from being raided by superior numbers-ALL THANKS TO THE BUSH AMINISTRATION- I'll gladly take Clinton, Bush I, or Reagan over this president-embarrasing!

Fiscal conservative Dubya is not.

URAHYPOCRITE wrote:The notion that the modern Republican party is any different or that they are "fiscally responsible" is a joke.  Per the Cato Inst.:

Inflation is growing faster than in the last quarter century, banks are closing, foreclosures are sky high, the deficit and national debt are out of control, oil is $140, gas is $4.30/gal, the dollar is low, we are in 2 wars-one of which we don't have enough troops to prevent our outposts from being raided by superior numbers-ALL THANKS TO THE BUSH AMINISTRATION- I'll gladly take Clinton, Bush I, or Reagan over this president-embarrasing!

Actually, inflation is only at 4.00% and most of that is due to energy and food costs driving up the cost of everything.  "Inflation" on everything else is minimal.  Inflation is not our problem but the Fed seems to know no other economic term so they focus on that.  Energy is our problem.  We need more than we have.  Bush and Congress share blame for this problem.  Neither has done anything to increase domestic supplies of energy in the past 7 years.  For that matter, nobody had done anything since Reagan so you can add Bush I and Clinton to the list of those responsible for the problem.  

We are in one war with two fronts.  And we have Clinton to thank for gutting the size of our military for the current shortage of troops.  Clinton gutted the force structure because he wanted to spend the "peace dividend" on domestic projects.  It will take years to raise the additional brigades the Army wants to create.  

Both parties have contributed to the mess we are in and that is why many of us here are no longer supporters of the Dems or GOP.  We are tired of being lied to and mislead and mis-governed.  I think most of us realize we need a real change back toward limited government, balanced budgets and a sound currency.  But, we realize none of this mess is due to any one person or party.

I was careful not to say "inflation is high", just wanted to point out the story today from Drudge that inlfation is up at fastest pace in 27 years-due, as you correctly pointed out, to energy and food prices.  I agree with the rest of your comments.  As someone who voted for W Bush the first time out I can only label his presidency as embarassing on so many fronts.  For any Conservative to think that Reagan would have screwed things up like this is crazy.  We will be paying for his errors for years if not decades.

URAHYPOCRITE wrote:
The notion that the modern Republican party is any different or that they are "fiscally responsible" is a joke. Per the Cato Inst.:

President Bush has presided over the largest overall increase in inflation-adjusted federal spending since Lyndon B. Johnson. Even after excluding spending on defense and homeland security, Bush is still the biggest-spending president in 30 years.

I hope I didn’t give you the impression that I support the leadership of either “Party”. I do not defend FDR’s democratic party inspired “New Deal“, or LBJ’s democratic party inspired “Great Society”, both of which are responsible for ushering in the Washington Establishment’s political plum job empire!

Nor would I ever think of defending the expansion of federal spending under the Bush Administration which was made possible by a Republican controlled House and Senate____ keep in mind this unity in party leadership and their control of the Presidency was not the case under Reagan and Clinton.

But what is important to note in all this is the never ending expansion in the Washington Establishment’s political plum job empire since its introduction by FDR in the 1930‘s, and how those who hold political plum jobs do far better financially than, for example, a hard working person living in Harlem, as documented above:

Are you considering a government job? The federal government employs more than 2,700,000 workers and hires hundreds of thousands each year to replace civil service workers that transfer to other federal government jobs, retire, or leave for other reasons. Average annual salary for full-time federal government jobs exceeds $67,000. The U.S. Government is the largest employer in the United States, hiring about 2.0 percent of the nation's work force. Federal government jobs can be found in every state and large metropolitan area, including overseas in over 200 countries. The average annual federal workers compensation, pay plus benefits, is $106,871 compared to just $53,288 for the private sector according to the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Unfortunately, most private sector Black working people who support Obama are absolutely correct when they say, as a general statement, “its all about the Benjamins”. But they seem to be easily conned into surrendering the “Benjamins“ they earn to "agents of change" who merely seek to change the faces of those holding political plum jobs within the inner circle of the Washington Establishment. Do black voters not realize they will be betrayed by Obama's "agents of change“ and remain tax slaves ___ useful to feed political plum job holders on our federal plantation?

Regards,
JWK




“He has erected a multitude of new offices(Washington‘s existing political plum job Empire), and sent hither swarms of officers, to harass our people, and eat out their substance” ___Declaration of Independence

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has an “expansive vision” for our federal government and wants a new federal law which would subjugate our Constitution’s Tenth Amendment and federalism and require public school systems created by the people under state constitutions, to stay open all day and provide a variety of after-school activities and services such as child care, recreation, tutoring, dental and medical care and counseling. See: New Vision for Schools Proposes Broad Role

Keep in mind that AFT’s 1.4 million member organization endorsed Obama, which is in addition to the National Education Association’s 3.2 million member organization which also endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for U.S. president. And, in 2004, these two politically active organizations had more delegates to the democrat convention than every state delegation except California’s delegation.

Of course, those who have been victims of a government school education, which is now most of our nation’s population, have no reason to be alarmed or suspect that their constitutionally limited “Republican Form of Government” is being threatened from within by these groups. The sad truth is, those who attend government schools, which have been taken over by these two groups [ AFT and NEA] have not been taught that our federal Constitution does not delegate a power to Congress to tax for, spend on and regulate state constitutionally authorized public school systems! As a matter of fact, for several generations children attending government schools have not been taught the basics of our constitutionally limited system of government and the enumerated powers granted to Congress by our Constitution which were elaborated upon in the Federalists Papers, e.g. see Federalist No.45

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.


The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State. The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.

The bottom line is, Barack Obama’s primary supporters are part of a very dangerous Washington Establishment and its parasitic political plum job empire, who have a primary and personal financial interest at stake in supporting Obama ____ feeding at the public trough!

Aside from the AFT and NEA organizations, let us look at the federal Department of Education. The federal Department of Education has approximately 5000 federal political plum job employees with excessive salaries, top of the shelf medical plans, and an outrageous pension program, all of which Mary and Joe Sixpack living in Idaho can only dream of having but will continue to be taxed to finance if Obama is elected.

And what is the job of the employees at the federal Dept. of Education? Redistributing money taxed away from Mary and Joe Sixpack for a function not authorized by our written federal Constitution.

The frightening thing in all this is, the total memberships of the AFT, NEA and federal Department of Education make up an alarming 5 million member foot soldier army, which organizes during federal elections to keep Mary and Joe Sixpack a federal tax slave, there to support the good life for federal employees at the Department of Education, in spite of the fact that the American people have not given a power to Congress to tax for, spend on, or regulate state constitutionally authorized public school systems.

JWK

Black working people who support Obama are absolutely correct when they say, as a general statement, “its all about the Benjamins”. But they seem to be easily conned into surrendering the “Benjamins“ they earn to "agents of change" who merely seek to change the faces of those holding political plum jobs within the inner circle of the Washington Establishment. Do black voters not realize they will be betrayed by Obama's "agents of change” and remain tax slaves ___ useful to feed political plum job holders on our federal plantation?