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    Quote Originally Posted by klaatu
    I agree ..this President and his republican cohorts are very "liberal" with their spending habits ...

    Fortunately Clinton and a Newt led House were exteremely fiscally responsible.

    Reagan on the other hand ... with a Democratically controlled Congress had difficulties coming to an agreement on spending priorties ...
    See Reagan believed the Government shouldnt spend more than it takes in ... and he also understood the need to rebuild the Military... lower the top tax bracket from 70% down to 28% .. because clearly that would empower Business...which it did... but the Democratically controlled Congrees didnt know how to adjust their spending habits according to what was coming in ...
    Even though revenue was increasing because of the growth of business and investment ...they were spending like.... drunken sailors!

    But you are right ..this Republican Congress is the worst yet .. no argument here....
    Divided government seems to spend less. I emphasize "seems", because I haven't seen long-term empirical data to back that up.

    BTW- its not accurate to say reagan had a "democratic controlled" congress.

    The GOP ran the seante from 1981-1987, so the GOP controlled two of the three entitities that propose and implement spending: white house and senate.

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    I do not see why the Fed needs to spend more than 1.5 trillion per year.

    Half of that would be funding for the military.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    Nah, I'd have got the exact same result. The state went for GWB...
    what do you expect from a state that ban's puppies.

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    The state hasn't banned any animals, 'dawg. Only Liberal Denver...
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    my bad... silly me... in any event they are euthanizing poor puppies for no good reason in Denver. so of course it would go for GW.

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    CO likes to kill things... i remember reading of a forest rec officer burning down a whole state park out there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by robdastud View Post
    CO likes to kill things... i remember reading of a forest rec officer burning down a whole state park out there.
    LOL. Yeah we voted her in as our "Burning Down Things" Representative. The only state in the union that has one, ya know? Most successful Burning Things Down Rep we ever had! Now she and her wife Bertha share a cell...
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    do you remember that?? can't remember if that was CO, but it was out there. and i think she practically burned down a whole mountain.

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    can you send your burning down things rep. to conn to see LIEberman.

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    Quote Originally Posted by robdastud View Post
    do you remember that?? can't remember if that was CO, but it was out there. and i think she practically burned down a whole mountain.
    I definitely remember it. We fought that fire... It was the Hayman Fire. (No, her name wasn't Hayman)... One of our guys dropped into the empty space left from a root ball of a tree. I mean we were walking along to the new line and suddenly he was "not"... We had to pull him up out of the ground.
    Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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