Like George Bush,
John McCain Has No Concept of How Federal Spending Works
by James Glaser
April 16, 2008

Now I am not claiming to be an economist, heck I'm really not that great of a book-keeper either, but I do understand how a budget works. I also understand what debt is.

On the way home from work yesterday I was listening to NPR, and they had John McCain on talking about making George Bush's tax cuts permanent, cutting the federal gas tax for the summer months, and freezing discretionary spending.

Like I said, I understand budgets and debt. George Bush has raised our national debt higher than any other president in history, and John McCain wants to continue with his policies. I am a Republican, but McCain and Bush are not. At least not the type of Republican that my father was or the type of Republican that made the Party attractive to me.

When I think of the Republican Party, right away I think of personal freedom, smaller government, and fiscal responsibility. When I think of George Bush or John McCain, I think of taking away the personal protections that the Bill of Rights gives us. I think of a huge expansion of the federal government, and I think about passing on greater debt to our children and grand children.

George Bush, with the help of men like John McCain, has kept us in a state of war for the last seven years. Unlike any prior administration, George Bush has gone to war with the nation's credit card in his hand, and John McCain wants to use that same credit card to keep our troops fighting. Our whole nation sacrificed with War Bond drives, and I doubt if there was any scrap metal left by the end of WW II. Americans did everything they could to pay for that war. Think of this, they even gave up much of their coffee and sugar. Today we give up nothing, but our children will.

We can argue if Bush's tax cuts help the rich or the middle class. What we can not argue about is the fact that you and I are not paying for this war. We are putting it on a charge card. John McCain is going to ask for an increase in our nation's card limit, just like George Bush has several times.

We have had the Republicans in charge of our country for six out of the last seven years and they are spending us into the ground. The federal government has never been larger, and we are in a two wars that have lasted longer than World War II, with no end in sight for either one. We as a nation can not afford to elect John McCain to a third Bush term in office.

Do I think a Democrat will be any better? I don't know, but they sure can't be any worse.

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