[Rhodes22-list] Politics and discussion between Slim, Brad, et al.

[Philip]

The borrowing has been going on longer than Reagan.  You fail to mention
that Reagan inherited  an eviscerated military that required a lot of
fixing.  That isn't cheap.  Any true conservative will tell you to read the
Constitution and show them where in that document all the spending outside
of defense and basic infrastructure is authorized?

Philip


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In a message dated 11/10/2006 8:28:17 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
ekroposki at charter.net writes:

Conservatives accept that reasonable taxes for maintaining the society  are
in order.




This is egregious baloney unsupported by any historical fact or  analyses.
Conservatives do not want to pay taxes, but they do want all the  services
(defense, education, etc).  The national debt  statistics (see ustreas.gov
and do
the analyses) clearly show   "conservative" governments (Reagan, BushI, and
BushII) have incurred  historically high debts by any historical standard.
This
nation has  existed for more than 200 years, just those 3 presidents have
incurred the large  majority of the existent national debt in less than 20
years.
Faced with taxes  or borrowing to fund the government conservatives have
borrowed.  The  historical record is absolutely unequivocal.  And the
problem is
not "we  lost our way", the national debt record clearly shows that huge
borrowings  started with Reagan.

The historical record shows there is absolutely nothing fiscally
conservative about political conservatives.

Dave

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