Republicans: Spending like there's no tomorrow

Weren't the Republicans crowing for years about fiscal responsibility? 

Yet the first time they get control of both houses of Congress in
decades.......they spend the house out!!!


http://www.motherjones.com/news/dailymojo/2003/11/11_505.html

Extract (partial): 

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After 9/11, the GOP told the American people to expect higher spending on
homeland defense. And, according, to the conservative Heritage Foundation,
federal spending has grown 16 percent since 2001. In 2003, federal spending
topped $20,000 per household for the first time since WWII (adjusted for
inflation and put in 2003 dollars). But Heritage also points out that over
half the new spending is unrelated to defense and the 9/11 attacks. Brian
M. Riedl writes:

    "From 2001 through 2003, the federal budget expanded by $296 billion.
New defense spending accounted for $100 billion of that amount, and other
9/11-induced spending on homeland security, international aid, and domestic
rebuilding totaled $32 billion. That leaves $164 billion in new spending
completely unrelated to defense and the 9/11 attacks?these unrelated
expenditures were responsible for 55 percent of all new spending."

The budget, as a Goldman Sachs newsletter recently put it, is "out of
control..............

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