ANY of you libs wanna look at the interest rate when Reagan took office against when he left? Any of you libs wanna look at the growth of the economy, lowering of taxes MASSIVELY, the fall of the Soviet empire, the neato weapons that were devoloped for Bill's around the world fireworks display, and other HUGE accomplishments during the Reagan/Bush years? The biggest real arguement I have heard against Reagan's policies is a few loafers had to work a little.
I'm sure someone will credit something to Clinton/Gore, but they've had 7 years to do what they wanted. They've had a congress giving them more money than they asked for when they took office. I see not much benefit for over 1.5 trillion dollars spent every year that can be attributed to them. If you think differently, just listen to themselves talk about how many people still need help. Here in NC, we still haven't seen money come in that was promised for massive flooding due to Floyd. Thats been over a year, and we still have people living in temporary trailers that were supposed to be used no longer than 6 months. A few people were given $10k to start over and move out. They spent it on B.S., and now they still live in the trailers, and the money paid to those people is gone. The tax payer still pays to keep those people up in those trailers. The buy outs promised would give the people who had contributed something to society some needed capital to rebuild, but that money is VERY slow arriving. Government wastes more money than it spends effectively. Anyone happy with the 2% rate of return on your social security money? If so, please let me hold your money for you and I will pay you the 2% interest while a guaranteed bank cd will pay me over 5% (and that SUCKS).
I tend to agree more with Bohemian as far as philosophy, but the constituion party is not going to win this election. If it was up to me, I would allow all governments collectively to take no more than 25% of your income (work for an even lower rate), but do away with almost, if not all the loop holes. Bush is still spending WAY too much money, but I'll take him any day over a proven liar that wants nothing less than a socialist society here in America. If Gore wins, you people better be ready to give up some of those SUV's, hand over some of your guns, and pay more taxes.