On Sep 16, 12:42*pm, wrote:
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:47:42 -0700 (PDT), wf3h
wrote:

On Sep 16, 1:46*am, wrote:
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:46:42 -0700, "nom=de=plume"

snipped for brevity



the biggest spenders in US history were ronald reagan and george w.
bush. where was the outrage when they busted the budget?

Got up on the wrong side of a reasoned discourse this morning?

"House Speaker Thomas O'Neill (D., Mass.), who had tried to offset the
President's personal pulling power with some tough political talk of
his own, said after the vote that "the monkey is off the Democrat's
back. *The federal budget cuts, as brutal as they are, are Reagan's
cuts."

Toledo Blade, May 8th, 1981


unfortunately for your distorted view of history, the right wing 'cato
institute' agrees with me:

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3750

President Bush has presided over the largest overall increase in
inflation-adjusted federal spending since Lyndon B. Johnson. Even
after excluding spending on defense and homeland security, Bush is
still the biggest-spending president in 30 years

and for a longer view, the biggest budget busters have been
republicans:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...6/ai_20409139/

Over the last 100 years, of the five presidents who reigned over the
largest domestic spending growth, four were Republicans. Taken in
order of expenditures, they were Richard Nixon, Herbert Hoover, Dwight
Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman (the lone Democrat), and George Bush.

and for a view of presidents and budget deficits, check

http://jimbuie.blogs.com/photos/unca...art_2006_2.gif

to see what a BIG spender reagan was compared to clinton.

now, right winger, go read. you might learn something