Originally published November 4 2005
Bush's spending record speaks for itself, pastor says
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Pastor Chuck Baldwin discusses the statistics behind President Bush's spending record and arrives at the conclusion that Bush is one expensive president, mainly because he has failed to impose restrictions on Congressional spending.
After nearly five years in office, the record is clear: President George W. Bush ranks among the biggest spending presidents in American history!
With such a record, no person can honestly categorize G.W. Bush as a fiscal conservative.
By comparison, Dubya's spending habits make Bill Clinton look like a conservative!
Writing for the Financial Times (7/15/05), Jim Cooper stated, "President George W. Bush has failed to impose discipline on congressional spending.
His Republican Congress has, unsurprisingly, become headstrong and spendthrift as a result."
Cooper continued by saying, "Mr. Bush is the first US president since James Garfield in 1881 to accept every bill that Congress sends him as if it were perfect.
And Garfield only served six months in office."
Again, Cooper wrote, "Most of the strong presidents in American history vetoed dozens, sometimes hundreds, of bills.
Beyond that, according to Stephen Slivinski of the libertarian Cato Institute, "[President] Bush has presided over the largest overall increase in inflation-adjusted federal spending since Lyndon B. Johnson.
Jim Cooper notes that "Not only has Mr. Bush failed to veto any legislation, he has not rescinded any outlays.
Rescissions allow presidents to cut any spending programmes within larger bills as long as simple majorities in both Houses of Congress agree.
"Although this White House pretends it is powerless, former president Bill Clinton sought to rescind 163 spending items totaling $6.6 billion, and won 111 from a divided Congress, saving $3.6 billion.
Cooper summarized by saying, "Mr. Bush has rescinded no programmes, saving no dollars, despite complete Republican control of Congress.
The fiscal consequences of one-party government are dire.
Today, there is no adult supervision of Congress.
Mr. Bush is aiding and abetting the most expensive political logrolling in American history."
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