Don't remember if this number is accurate. But $1trillion of that debt was created in only nine months. Even in two years and adjusted for inflation, that once would have been scandalous among the entire Republican Party. K Street and other corruptions make it easy to forget reality when a political agenda is more important than America.
41% of Americans so hate this country as to still insist that George Jr is doing a good job. Amazing how so many will believe what Rush Limbaugh tells them.
This from a recent book by Bruce Bartlett, a Reaganite libertarian who worked in the Reagan White House and the George Sr Treasury Department. Just another example of what conservative are publishing - from The Economist:
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This book is a sobering reminder of just how much the Bush team has to wrong: from the failure to veto a single spending bill, however pork-laden, to the crass recklessness of serially cutting taxes while introducing the biggest expansion of a government entitlement programme in decades ...
That recklessness, Mr Bartlett argues with candour that few other conservatives can muster, will inevitably lead to higher taxes. He dismisses the idea, still peddled by some Republicans, that cutting taxes will "starve the beast" of government and lead to lower spending. ... Mr Bartlett's analysis of America's fiscal prospects is compelling.
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