In just three years Bush has increased federal spending by 24%!

[stickdog]

While giving the rich and their offshore corporations HUGE tax breaks.

How in the hell can federal government spending go up a full 24% without creating a single net US job?

I realize that "War on Terrorism" profiteers are getting about 10% of this money -- but where in the hell did the rest of this money go?

Note we are not talking about a 24% growth in spending vs. revenues. The increase in that gap is MUCH higher. We are talking about a full 24% in spending only alone.

Other than Halliburton, Carlyle and Betchel, who got all that money?

[stickdog]

1. Seriously, does anybody here know where the all the money went?

Given Bush's war profiteering, I have to believe into his and his friends' pockets.

But does anyone know specifically where the domestic discretionary budget has increased most?

[KG]

2. ok, GOPers, tell me again how your party is more 'fiscally responsible'?

:eyes:

[Damn Hippie]

3. And conservatives ignore this because....

EVERYTHING has changed since 9/11!

[snippy]

6. The sad part of that particular republican mantra is that Bush's spending

increases are typical for a republican president. Eisenhower was the last fiscally conservative republican president.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2004/sheets/hist01z3.xls (Note: The numbers for the first year of a presidential term are from the previous presidential term.)

Welcome to DU.

[Damn Hippie]

7. Good point

I wonder why Democrats are popularly perceived as being the party of fiscal irresponsibility?

[snippy]

8. Partly because of creating Social Security and Medicare but also because

of republican lies. Since Eisenhower was president the federal deficit has exceeded 3% of GDP 14 times. Every single time it was under a republican president. In that time the federal government has accumulated deficits totaling around $3.5 trillion, more than 90% of which was accumulated under a republican president.

[BeFree]

4. Campaign strategy

Want to divide the soft core pugs from the hard? This spending issue is the cleaver to use.

They can spin it all they want, but the ir-responsibility of this massive deficit spending shows up as black and white.

We divide, we conquer.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Defense contractors, farms, schools, you and me...

Defense and Homeland Security are the biggest pigs at the trough, with education and farms running close behind.

It costs a lot of money to run a war and hidden costs, like uniforms, bullets for training, moving carrier groups around, domestic base expansion, and other things not directly attributable to any particular war, add up fast.

A fairly big blip, although I'm not sure how much, is more people signing up for existing entitlements like SS and Medicare.


http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030630-121947-6635r.htm

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/7406148.htm

http://www.bcdemocrats.org/new_page_3.htm