Fettsbabe - I don't like to see people wasting our money (thats yours, mine, democrats, repubs). We work hard for it, and to have some goon taking advantage of us really irritates me.
You better stop voting Republican (or Democrat, for that matter) then.
According to the Cato Institute:
The 106th Congress is well on its way to becoming the largest-spending Congress on domestic social programs since the late 1970s when Jimmy Carter sat in the Oval Office and Thomas "Tip" O'Neill was Speaker of the House. Total federal nondefense spending is estimated to grow in real terms by $33 billion, or 11 percent, from 1999 to 2001 under the budget resolution approved by Congress in April 2000. And this is undoubtedly a "best-case" scenario: as the election gets closer, Congress and the White House are almost certain to add billions more to a budget crammed with special-interest spending for just about every constituency in Washington?from farmers, to environmentalists, to road builders, to the teachers' unions and universities.
A major reason for all the new spending is the unwillingness of Republicans to eliminate virtually any government program. Many of the more than 200 programs that the Republicans pledged to eliminate in 1995 in their "Contract with America" fiscal blueprint now have fatter budgets than they had before the changing of the guard.
Overall federal expenditures for 95 of the largest "living-dead" programs have risen a total of 13 percent since 1994. Some programs even received substantial budget increases often in excess of what the White House proposed."
If you ask me, I think everybody's hands are showing some dirt. Everybody's got a constituency, and there's no way around that. Republican or Democrat. Period.
You better stop voting Republican (or Democrat, for that matter) then.
According to the Cato Institute:
The 106th Congress is well on its way to becoming the largest-spending Congress on domestic social programs since the late 1970s when Jimmy Carter sat in the Oval Office and Thomas "Tip" O'Neill was Speaker of the House. Total federal nondefense spending is estimated to grow in real terms by $33 billion, or 11 percent, from 1999 to 2001 under the budget resolution approved by Congress in April 2000. And this is undoubtedly a "best-case" scenario: as the election gets closer, Congress and the White House are almost certain to add billions more to a budget crammed with special-interest spending for just about every constituency in Washington?from farmers, to environmentalists, to road builders, to the teachers' unions and universities.
A major reason for all the new spending is the unwillingness of Republicans to eliminate virtually any government program. Many of the more than 200 programs that the Republicans pledged to eliminate in 1995 in their "Contract with America" fiscal blueprint now have fatter budgets than they had before the changing of the guard.
Overall federal expenditures for 95 of the largest "living-dead" programs have risen a total of 13 percent since 1994. Some programs even received substantial budget increases often in excess of what the White House proposed."
If you ask me, I think everybody's hands are showing some dirt. Everybody's got a constituency, and there's no way around that. Republican or Democrat. Period.