Friday, September 23, 2005

W: Big Pimpin

Anyone else notice that even the conservative publications are starting to turn on W?

http://www.reason.com/links/links092105.shtml

Those figures come by way of the American Enterprise Institute's Veronique de Rugy, who has calculated that George W. Bush has boosted total inflation-adjusted discretionary spending in his first term by 35.1 percent. To put that in context, chew on this: LBJ—the Texas legend who created the Great Society and, for all intents and purposes, the Vietnam War—only boosted discretionary spending 33.4 percent. What's more, the gap between Bush and LBJ will only grow.

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