Why is it okay for the right to paint FDR as some sort of crypto-fascist/communist (not my label, theirs) but Bush is to be absolved of any of the problems that faced Obama when he took office?
Why do some posters not want to understand the social policy issue surrounding health care and see it only in the way that it has been framed by its opponents, as an ideological issue?
I throw bush right in the trash barrel with FDR, both bushs in fact. They were all progressives of one shade or another....other than Reagan, and he couldn't balance his books either but at least he shrank everything but defense.
He didn't, you know. The scope of the federal government, and spending has NEVER gotten smaller, at least since the end of WWII. It's only ever gotten bigger. If you leave out defense spending, Reagan didn't shrink any other spending, he only increased it less than most Presidents have done.