December 03, 2003

Debra Saunders on the disgusting GOP spending spree. Quotable:

In his State of the Union address, [George] Bush promised a budget "that increases discretionary spending by 4 percent next year -- about as much as an average family's income is expected to grow." But as The Washington Post reported last month, federal discretionary spending grew by 12.5 percent in the last fiscal year. In two years, the government grew by more than 27 percent.

Or as [John] McCain put it, "We're spending like a family going into bankruptcy." ...

"It's like any other evil; it either is reversed or eliminated, or it grows," McCain said. "It's evil to take taxpayers' hard-earned dollars and spend them on frivolous things."

Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack