"conservative leadership that got the nation into these economic, foreign policy, environmental and other types of problems"
This is a very contentious point here. It would be more appropriate to say "republican" leadership. Bush was far from conservative except socially. There is a distinction now because Republicans have moved so far away from their conservative roots. I associate them more with neo-cons now than I do conservatives.
And really we have been on the same path in this country for years, including the Clinton years. Wars, more wars, and constantly increasing government budgets with not much to show for it. Both parties are huge contributors to our problems.
I agree with your "conservatives" vs "Republican" correction.
Republicans have lost their fiscal conservative roots and have been behaving more like the "tax and spend" Democrat strawman they are so devoted to badmouthing, for a long time. They paid for it in the past few Congressional elections and last November.
I don't completely understand your last sentence though. why wouldn't you expect government budgets to grow over decades?...inflation, more responsibilities, more people (Medicare) / industries ( new financial products) / topics, etc to address...cost of living salary increases for gov't employees (e.g state of texas employees have received a whopping 5% COLA increase over the past decade).
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This is a very contentious point here. It would be more appropriate to say "republican" leadership. Bush was far from conservative except socially. There is a distinction now because Republicans have moved so far away from their conservative roots. I associate them more with neo-cons now than I do conservatives.
And really we have been on the same path in this country for years, including the Clinton years. Wars, more wars, and constantly increasing government budgets with not much to show for it. Both parties are huge contributors to our problems.
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Republicans have lost their fiscal conservative roots and have been behaving more like the "tax and spend" Democrat strawman they are so devoted to badmouthing, for a long time.
They paid for it in the past few Congressional elections and last November.
I don't completely understand your last sentence though. why wouldn't you expect government budgets to grow over decades?...inflation, more responsibilities, more people (Medicare) / industries ( new financial products) / topics, etc to address...cost of living salary increases for gov't employees (e.g state of texas employees have received a whopping 5% COLA increase over the past decade).
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