Bush is a conservative, eh? Here’s another typical budget from our small government champion.
If President Bush’s budget for fiscal 2009 is approved in its current form, U.S. government spending will have increased by more than $1.2 trillion since President Clinton left office; adjusted for inflation, that’s a 35% increase. Bush has increased spending at three times the rate Clinton did when he was president, and also has given us the biggest defense budget since World War II — and that’s regularly budgeted defense spending, not counting funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Yet, as in the past, Bush is proud of his fiscal discipline and projects the end of the deficit in 2012.