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The Change We Got: Bush’s Big Spending, Now on Steroids

March 27, 2009 - 12:00 am - by N.M. Guariglia
Mike Blackadder
2009-03-27 19:38:02

Here’s the really hypocritical thing. You Democrats are supposed to be the ones who are pointing out how Bush created this economic mess. So why don’t I hear any criticism of Bush’s huge medicare entitlements spending (whose dollar increases were double that of Defense increases), and increased spending on education, or how his tax cuts to the poor had far more adverse effect on revenues than his tax cuts to the rich?

The fact is conservatives like some things about Bush’s policies. I certainly do, but there are some things that we criticize about him. If you ‘progressives’ were competent enough to do the same, you wouldn’t be exaggerating the problem by expanding on every Bush policy that was harmful, while rejecting every policy that was positive for national security and the economy.