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September 14, 2004
There you go again. In 2000, candidate Bush charged Gore with using "fuzzy math" to sell his plans to the American people. We now know who was right about numbers not adding up as our nation is saddled with record deficits and the largest government ever heaped on the American people.
Despite this fact, George Bush is at it again, saying:
"Not only is his plan going to increase the power of bureaucrats in your life," Bush said, "but he can't pay for it unless he raises your taxes."
[Bush says foe's health care plan would raise taxes - Houston Chronicle - 09-13-04]
President Bush's record and proposals for another four years clearly show no one in American history has out spent the big-government Republican that is George Bush.
The expansive agenda President Bush laid out at the Republican National Convention was missing a price tag, but administration figures show the total is likely to be well in excess of $3 trillion over a decade.A staple of Bush's stump speech is his claim that his Democratic challenger, John F. Kerry, has proposed $2 trillion in long-term spending, a figure the Massachusetts senator's campaign calls exaggerated. But the cost of the new tax breaks and spending outlined by Bush at the GOP convention far eclipses that of the Kerry plan.
[$3 Trillion Price Tag Left Out As Bush Details His Agenda - Washington Post - 09-14-04]
Where is Arnold Schwarzenegger on the campaign trail when you need him to echo that winning Republican mantra of "fiscal responsibility" that got him elected in California? Mysteriously, that message of holding elected officials accountable by voting them out of office has vanished barely a year later.
also read: Wizbang (Fun with Numbers), Andrew Sullivan, Moderate Republican
filed under: Fuzzy Math