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If you look at spending under Bush, you will find that it spun out of control after Democrats regained control of the House. Republicans spent too much but spending exploded under the Democrats. I agree with you on NCLB (a Teddy/Bush bill) an the Medicare increase.

However, taxpayers are seriously overtaxed and budget deficits are spending problems, not revenue shortfalls. Unless Santorum voted against the Bush tax cuts, I don't find his position disgraceful at all. Tax receipts increased under Bush until the housing bubble burst in 2008.

Hoot, thank you for post, i ALWAYS enjoy reading them. Few people on here present the facts like you do. You remind me much of my pick for the GOP nomination, former speaker of the House, Dr. Newt Gingrich. He clearly won last nights debate, according to most polls, pundits, bloggers, and even democratic strategists. Substance matters. Charisma, looks, intelligence, background, endorsements, fundraising, etc, they all matter... but SUBSTANCE.... what your posts typically consist of, and Newt's speeches always do..... thats what matters. And i firmly believe as Reagan, that the american people, when presented the true and unbiased facts will ultimately do 2 things.... 1)make the right choice on the matters that afffect their lives, and 2) pick the right people to lead this nation in the direction they want it to go in.

Hoot, I'm not for sure where you stand on all the issues. But I'm proud to walk by your side as we march towards the city upon a hill that I believe the Christ, the same god that all presidents have acknowledged, the same GOD that all states acknowledge within the first 50 words of their constitutions, the same GOD that the free people of northern, central, and southern iraq aknowledge as their own, the same GOD that blesses Isreal with superior power and our financial support...... the same god that will judge iran, its leaders, and its powers that wish they were, and want to be..... is the same god that i love.... that i suspsect you love.....and i know that the apoostles, the martyrs, the believers.... in the past HAVE, STILL DO, ALWAYS WILL! when ronald reagan talked about the 'city upon a hill', most think he was talking about john winthrop...... but what was he talking about?

i believe it was in combination of the following 3 things:
1) a literal, shining city that would be a bastion for freedom... or perhaps a modern day statue of liberty.
2)reagan thought that through his policies, and a relection if it were granted by god......that he could/would balance the budget.he didn't, nor did he come close. and the clostest that clinton and company came to me... was failure!!!


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