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February 15, 2008
Budget Busting Bush
President Bill Clinton, in his 1996 State of the Union Address, declared "the era of big government is over". Whether he really believed what he said can be argued, I suppose.
What's hard to argue, however, is that President George W. Bush doesn't agree whatsoever; Veronique de Rugy explains in an editorial published in the L.A. Times:
If President Bush's budget for fiscal 2009 is approved in its current form, U.S. government spending will have increased by more than $1.2 trillion since President Clinton left office; adjusted for inflation, that's a 35% increase. Bush has increased spending at three times the rate Clinton did when he was president, and also has given us the biggest defense budget since World War II -- and that's regularly budgeted defense spending, not counting funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. [emphasis mine]
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