anon-t26i
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“Republicans are a small government group with leanings toward capitalist economics..” No they are not. Deficit spending – Republican. New federal agencies? Republican. Destruction of habeas corpus? You guessed.
Mini Refresher Course partial list: Herbert Hoover increased federal spending 38%, passed the Agricultural Marketing Act (welfare for farmers) and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (pork and corporate welfare) as well as increased taxes.
Eisenhower: Increased federal spending 30 percent, Created Department of Health, Education, & Welfare (and spending), Started American involvement in Vietnam, Created NASA
Richard Nixon: Increased federal spending 70 percent, Created EPA, OSHA, and CPSC, Imposed price and wage controls, Made your 1968 dollar worth just 78 cents by the time he left office.
Gerald Ford: decreased the value of the dollar by 8 cents while increasing federal spending.
George Herbert Walker Bush: Increased federal spending 12 percent, Managed to knock 13 cents off the value of your dollar in just four years, he was kind of like Obama’s “you can keep your doctor” with his “no new taxes”.
GW Bush: Expanded the size of government with the Department of Homeland Security, increased federal spending by 48.6 percent and shot habeas corpus to heck. And let us not forget how he ignored the warning signs, from the FBI no less, of 911 and then involved us in a unprovoked attack of a sovereign state. What is the difference between a Republican and a Democrat? You know the answer.