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National NewsConservative News
What Conservative Party?
By SuppressedNews
Posted on: November 13, 2005
Conservative party? What conservative party? Yes, Republicans say that theirs is America's conservative party, but the case grows steadily more difficult to make.
The greatest problem of our day is the monumental invasion of our country by illegal aliens, and the "conservative" party stands idly by watching it happen. But put aside this point for a moment and just look at the Republicans' fiscal behavior.
The liberal Democrat Bill Clinton left office with a $236 billion surplus, and under alleged conservative Republican George Bush that has been converted to a $400 billion deficit last year. Since Bush took office, spending has risen 33 percent, which is a larger increase than occurred in all of the eight years of Clinton's presidency.
A part of the increase is the new billions given to the Department of Education, a useless, intrusive bureaucracy which just a few election cycles ago was marked for abolition by the Republican Party platform. Now billions are being poured in under the "No Child Left Behind" program in a cynical sham based on the hopeless ideal of achieving academic equality for all students regardless of ability.
And looming up is the new prescription drug program. It is being added on top of a Social Security and Medicare program that is already doomed to bankruptcy based on present trends. In his radio address this weekend the president gleefully urged seniors to quickly sign up to this gargantuan new social program that even Lyndon Johnson never proposed. It will add trillions of dollars to the burden we will leave to our children and to their children. It is abjectly unfair to our posterity.
All of this reckless fiscal irresponsibility, remember, is being acted out with the "conservative" party holding the presidency and both houses of congress.
So where's the real conservative party?
Political Bridge to Nowhere, November 15, 2005.
Higher Revenues Bring Little Reason to Celebrate, October 18, 2005.
Republican Behavior Like Alien Invasion, October 6, 2005.
Higher Taxes Without Greater Accountability, April 19, 2005.
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