The line from the Bush Administration and their surrogates is that Kerry’s proposed programs will cost the tax payers $1.5 Trillion. (Far less, by the way, than Dubya has been able to increase the National Debt so far during his tenure).
But, okay. Fair enough. $1.5 Trillion is the cost for Kerry’s proposed programs.
And the cost of Bush’s proposed programs? The ones he introduced for the first time at the Republican Convention? According to the Administration’s own figures? Bush’s programs will cost in excess of $3 Trillion.
And yet there are still folks out there who really believe that George W. Bush is a conservative. These are the people that will believe anything George W. Bush tells them to believe. These are the people George W. Bush is counting on.
Bush/Cheney ’04: Suckers for America
I’ve heard it said that Reagan defeated the Soviet Union by scaring them into bankrupting themselves with military spending.
For the last three years, the President and Congress have been doing to the U.S. what Reagan did to the U.S.S.R.
If this continues, in 20 years the U.S. may be where the USSR is now.
20 years? Glad to hear your so optimistic, O.P.! Hope you’re right!