NOT!!!!!!! Many people like to say we should try Obama's new policies because, "we've had eight years of your republican/conservative ideas and they didn't work." Well I'm here to tell you we didn't really have eight years of conservative, republican ideas. Maybe republican, only because the republican party is slipping to the right and not upholding ideas they are supposed to. That is what happens when you try to "open the tent." But conservative, well not really eight years of anything.
No Child Left Behind, government takeover of Fannie Fae and Freddy Mack, Medicare drug benefit program, financial rescue plan, Medicare Act, Clears Skies Act, George Bush was not really very conservative. Under his presidency spending increased 5.3%. Defense spending is up 5.7&, education spending is up 18%. The list goes on, and this is who people point to when they say conservative policies don't work. The last real conservative was Ronald Reagan, that discussion will have to wait for another post.
What George Bush's presidency does show us is what not to do. He did cut taxes, but when someone cuts the amount of money coming in by cutting taxes but spends more does it surprise anyone that our national debt increased. Cutting taxes is great! I wish all presidents would do that, because when taxes are cut, the people have more money to spend and that boosts the economy, not Cash for Clunkers, which also will have to wait for another post. But please, can someone cut spending as well?! Is it that hard??????
In life there are opposites, good and evil, black and white, outside and inside, and democrats and republicans, and when they are mixed, things don't work out. Instead of picking on the former president, the democrats should like him and John McCain. I do think George Bush is probably a little better than John McCain, but this whole open tent thing the republicans seem to have lately isn't working so well. The end result is that the republicans as a majority are slipping to the left and becoming more democratic. Which is fine if that's what they want to do, but then why are they surprised why many people are leaving the party? They aren't sticking to their original ideas. Fine if the want to be democrats, then just go join their party, but don't drag down your own party. This is probably the reason why in the 2008 election the third party, Libertarian Party got more votes than any third party has in quite some time. The republicans aren't really the republicans that I remember from when I was younger. John McCain is referred to as a RINO by some, a republican in name only, which sad to say I think there are a few to many in the republican party.
The lesson for today is, cut spending and cut taxes and shrink government, and that is a republican, not really George Bush, or John McCain, think Ronald Regan.
Sources
George Bush spending- http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/20767.html
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