[WS:] The political rhetorics certainly has, but when you look at the composition of federal spending under Bush, especially health care spending - it is not necessarily so. The main bone of contention in the US politics is not the overall level of government spending - which has been growing pretty much in a linear fashion for the past 50 years - but the distribution of that spending, and also creating tax loopholes for politically connected businesses. The shrill of political rhetoric cover up the fact that both parties are essentially in the same game - the dispensation of political patronage in exchange for kickbacks (aka "political contributions.")
I am reasonably sure that when the Repugs gain control of the house (or the presidency) there will be a little change in the level of government spending - but a big change in which business cronies will be getting the federal largesse.
Wojtek
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Somebody Somebody
<philos_case at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Considering that the Affordable Care Act now being denounced as socialism is most similar to Mitt Romney's health care reform in Massachusetts, and to the Republican counter-proposal to Clinton's plan, which itself was considered too left-wing at the time, even while being more conservative than Nixon's plan... it's safe to say that American politics are still moving to the right.
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