Tom, since you seem to like facts better than opinions, make up your own mind...

The $3 trillion proposed spending in 2009 by George W. Bush would be the first time that milestone has been reached. Bush also presided over the first budget to hit $2 trillion in 2002. It took the government nearly 200 years to reach the first $1 trillion budget, which occurred in 1987 during the Reagan administration.

Prior to the Neo-Conservative takeover of the Republican Party there was not much difference between the two parties’ debt philosophy. They both worked together to minimize it. However the debt has been on a steady incline ever since the Reagan presidency. The only exception to the steep increase over the last 25 years was during the Clinton presidency, when he brought spending under control and the debt growth down to almost zero.

Comparing the borrowing habits of the two parties since 1981, when the Neo-Conservative movement really took hold and government spending raced out of control, it is extremely obvious that the big spenders in Washington are Republicans and their party’s presidents. The only Democratic president since then, Mr. Clinton raised the national debt an average of 4.3% per year. The Republican presidents (Reagan, Bush, and Bush II) raised the debt an average of 10.8% per year. That is, for every dollar a Democratic President has raised the national debt in the past 25 years, Republican presidents have raised the debt by $2.53. Any way you look at it Neo-Conservative Republican presidents cannot or will not control government spending.

http://www.cedarcomm.com/~stevelm1/usdebt.htm One of ten thousands links of researched facts. Not opinions.

While the Republicans talk about less government, they increase it. While they talk about fewer taxes they have imposed the largest tax increases on working class Americans since WWII than any Democratic president(Eisenhower is the only exception).

While the Republicans talk about being Pro-life and the moral majority they murder millions of children in the U.S. by cutting every humane program they can, while murdering children in other countries with bombs as in Iraq, and murdering other with apathy as in Africa.

Bottom line: Republicans hate, and I mean hate every dollar they have to spend on health, education and welfare. That's money they can't spend on wars to build their empire.

Boy, when you're right, you're right.

Thanks for dropping by Coffee Lady. There's never been a more evil family than the Bush family and, Barbar Bush is the driving force.

I dated an Italian woman once, but she finally got tired of supporting me and threw me out, I've never liked Italian women since. I'm thinking about becoming a Mormon. I mean, with all those new pills that can keep you going up for up to six hours, a man could take care of two, maybe even three women who had good jobs.