[lbo-talk] "Big Government Bush." (was: Activism )

[Michael Pugliese]

    On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 12:59:13 EST, <SergioL652 at aol.com> wrote:

In a message dated 1/25/2004 9:59:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
debsian at pacbell.net writes:
that, for example funding at the US Dept. of Education is up 70%. EPA as 
well, though not by that much!
Kind of misleading.  The budget mey be up, but congrtional set-asides amkes 
it so that there is actually about 20-30% less operating budget.  We can't 
get $ for travel or training and we are cutting contracts like crazy just 
to keep the FTEs we have.

Sergio


    (Steve, I have e-mail stripper. I am discontinuing that weird quoting 
style I have used
where I go like so...Karl Marx>...A spectre is haunting Europe...) as too 
many have told me it confuses them...what am I saying? What are they 
saying...?)

    Heh, wasn't trying to imply that at any of the civilian, non-NSDAP 
police state depts., that levels of increased funding (like the uptick of 
20+% at the federal dept. of education, due, mostly, I assume, to the, "No 
Child Left Behind Act, " which lots of rural and inner city teachers and 
admins. are not in favor of, in my observation, and from queries to public 
school teachers, I know here in Ca., NYC and rural Colorado and Iowa, where 
I have extended family who are school teachers, from whom I have spoken 
with.

   http://www.google.com/search?q=Big+Government+Bush
   http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/politics/25CONS.html "A Concerned Bloc 
of Republicans Wonders Whether Bush Is Conservative Enough." 
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/22/politics/22FISC.html "Conservative 
Republicans Push for Slowdown in U.S. Spending."
http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_bartlett/bartlett090803.asp
http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=S') 
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http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20030718-040025-1117r.htm
   Ahem, CATO Inst. #/%'ers so, fwiw! And these combine Clinton FY's and 
Dubya.
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=a19dbe95- 
fa2d-4e4e-ac2e-333ef16a8b46
U.S. FEDERAL SPENDING SINCE REPUBLICANS TOOK CONTROL OF CONGRESS: Annual 
increase in total federal outlays, excluding interest:

In billions of dollars:

1990: 94

1991: 61

1992: 53

1993: 28

1994: 48

1995: 25

1996: 36

1997: 37

1998: 55

1999: 60

2000: 94

2001: 92

2002: 182

2003: 173

2004: 224

U.S. FEDERAL SPENDING SINCE REPUBLICANS TOOK CONTROL OF CONGRESS: Growth in 
outlays by federal department under the Republicans, FY1995-FY2004:

Justice: 125%

Labor: 99%

Education: 94%

Health: 80%

Commerce: 71%

State: 66%

Veteran Affairs: 63%

Defense: 50%

Transportation: 45%

Interior: 39%

Agriculture: 38%

Housing/Urban: 31%

Energy: 20%

Treasury: 10%

Source: CATO Institute

-- 
Michael Pugliese

>From "Marx at the Millenium, " by Cyril Smith, Pluto Press. Footnote 5, pg. 
178, "...The Three Priciples of Democratic Centralism...by Don Cuckson: 1 
Father Knows Best 2 Not in front of the children 3 Keep it in the family.