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No I said it was poor management.
Yes, and I noted where most of the poor management comes from.
>>It certainly isn't a partisan issue.
It certainly is if you open yer eyes. Just look at the history.
>>All of government begs for money constantly in order to improve its power and control.
Empty rhetoric. Federal spending as a percentage of GDP has been steady between seventeen and twenty-one percent since 1952, when Uncle Sam and friends were busy managing to defend South Korea from a takeover by an invading dictatorship. The outliers since 1961 are four periods totalling fourteen of the fifty-five years:
- 1965-66, when it dropped despite a Democratic policy of fighting a war in Southeast Asia and expanding social welfare programs
- 1981-86, when it jumped under a GOP administration that did squeeze domestic spending, but precipitated a severe and persistent recession with an overly tight monetary policy … and spent a lot on the military
- 1991-92, when we had another GOP recession that cut production
- 2009-12, as we suffered through the effects of the GOP SSE Great Recession.
I was willing to hire Kasich, but he couldn't get enough votes in the primaries. I don't want Frumpy the Clown managing my affairs. I don't see a reason to ignore partisan differences.