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gregpresley wrote:

The only Republican economic principles of which I'm aware involve upping
military spending by huge percentages while simultaneously lowering taxes.
If they can manufacture a supposed threat to the US during their terms, they
are quick to seize upon it as an excuse to increase military spending by
that much more. When the resultant ballooning deficits hit home, the next
Republican mantra is "cut discretionary spending". Which means, welfare,
medicaid, the National Instititutes of Health and Science, the Center for
Disease Control, the Environmental Protection Agency, PBS, the National
Endowment for the Arts, and of course the agencies that inspect meat and
agricultural goods. And if it can be done in the dead of night, they also
cut Medicare payments and look for ways to make social security less
solvent.
The last time the General Accounting Office did an audit of the
military, they discovered that 40% of the military budget could not be
accounted for - no receipts, no nothin'. That's in the neighborhood of $150
billion dollars a year unaccounted for. Trimming THAT cash cow would go a
long way toward restoring solvency to our Federal Government, but it ain't
never gonna happen during a Republican administration, with all that that
party "owes" to the military industrial establishment which pays huge sums
every four years to buy the candidates that protect it.
Yeah, Republican economic principles - that IS a laugh..........
"Ann" wrote in message
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"B & J" expounded:

What I remember best is eight straight
years of prosperity with no war and environmental protection. Could that
possibly happen again? :)

Sure. After 8 straight years of Republican economic guidance ;-

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Ann, Gardening in zone 6a
Just south of Boston, MA
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