Why do Republicans think that Government spending is bad.?

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The government is responsible for maintaining law and order in a civilized society. It is responsible for our system of jurisprudence, maintaining our infrastructure, insuring the health of its citizens, educating its citizens, and protecting its resources.However, whenever a Democrat tries to put forward a bill to do these things, with the exception of military spending, the Republicans block it. Do the Republicans not want any government spending?Why don't Republicans help cash strapped states with education funding? Why not help build infrastructure. That is government's job.What is more hypocritical, when Republicans are in power, they outspend Democrats, yet when they are not in power they criticize Democrats for the very thing that they do most, spend.Republicans outspend democrats on everything.If Democrats are labeled as tax and spend.Republicans should be labeled as borrow and spend more.I ask this because people on this forum are listening to Limbaugh too much and think that FDR caused the Great Depression with the New Deal.PS. If you don't believe me that Republicans vastly outspend Democrats, then look at the unbiased historical data, the numbers don't lie.http://www.cedarcomm.com/~stevelm1/usdebt.htmIf you look at this data you will see another trend.Democrats tend to balance their budgets, Republicans do not.For the last 40 years, every democrat president took in more money than he spent, every republican spent more than he made. Sounds like the Democrat party is the more responsible party.Tifa,Blacks and whites are the same species. If blacks are destined to fail, then so are whites! Genetically we are identical. Blacks = Whites = Homo-sapiens = Human beings
 
I don't think that government spending is bad. I think that government WASTE and over-spending is bad.
 
Send me all of your money and I'll spend it for you, then re ask this question. I'll spend some on your security, and the rest on crap that no one needs
 
In and of itself it is not "bad"... however it really depends on WHAT it's being spent on.. :/ I expect taxpayers and the government to pay for services that protect me (ie, law enforcement, fire, military) and even public things like parks, schools, libraries.... but there has to be a line drawn... and the line for me is when spending starts to hinder, take away, or outright dictate a persons personal responsibility then I think it's too much...
 
If nations could tax and spend their way out of trouble; they would.Any questions?
 
1. difference between a Republican and Democrat is this: Dems know how to spend the taxpayer dollar and do it without asking, Republicans ask how they can spend the dollar and allow the public to say and refuse -- 2. how come nobody is taking about the cost of two wars NOW, but did b/4 -- cud it be that the new Dem package is dwarfing it?? Government never made a job -- work yes, but never a job -- why now?3. why do they alwas talk about FDR and what he did -- when his chief guy (Morganthal) wrote that their spending bills f a i l e d and made the depression l o n g e r -- i/e. spending did not repeat did not get them out of the depression === read h i s t o r y
 
no government is ONLY supposed to pay for what we NEED to survivethe military, police, firefighters, roads ectthe government DOES NOT need to act as a charity
 
They don't. Have you had a look at the military budget? Corporate welfare? They think that government spending is bad when goes directly to the people because it means that the private sector was not able to get it's 30-35% cut first. In a choice between the tax and spend Dem's or the CHARGE ITrepubliCANTS, l'll take the Dem's every time.
 
I haven't listened to Rush in years. Spending isn't bad depending what it is for, if it is something we really need fine If it is just a pay back to the democrats like the pork package it is crazy. We need only the necessities right now ! Not all the frill and fluff !
 
True conservatives think that government involvement constitutes waste and in many cases they're right. Pseudo conservative neocons however, spent us into oblivion... not only what we had, but also borrowed and spent that too.
 
Again, it is simply WHERE the money spent is going.In a time of supposed crisis, is it really a good idea to put billions toward more social programs and adding more unskilled workers to the government payroll?And as for all the "investment" in bridges, roads and parks...shouldn't we, instead, demand a full accounting of where all the money ALREADY collected for those thing went?And when the President talks about government retroactively setting private company salaries, does that really sound like someone focusing on RECOVERY or on exploiting public anger to get his party agenda pushed through?
 
So.. to maintain law and order the government needs to build a museum dedicated to organized crime in Las Vegas? To maintain law and order the government needs to spend hundreds of million replacing the grass on the mall? To maintain law and order the government needs to give political organizations hundreds of millions, or even billions, so they can continue drumming up voters for the DNC ( often done illegally )? No, that argument simply makes no sense.And it's hard to know if FDR caused the great depression or not, but what we do know is that his massive government spending policies didn't help and things got much worse and lasted unusually long after he started throwing money around.
 
Republicans love to spend. Just look at the recent history of Reagan, Bush Sr, and Bush Jr. All three set new records for government growth and spending. The difference is that Republicans like to spend in the areas (military, oil, banking) that reward their base (rich, white, and corporations).
 
Government spending isn't bad. Its where your spending it. This bill is not a stimuli's bill, Its a democrat grab bag. There isn't enough spending on infrastructure here. All of you Dem's need to realize that the government doesn't own you or your money. They dont produce anything. We are a nation with a government , not a government with a nation. They work for us! more programs = democrat votes. Republicans want people to PURSUE happiness, not be given it in the form of government housing and food stamps and such. Whats the matter, You to stupid to live your own life. What happened to American grit! You lazy bums make me sick. Gimme Gimme Gimme
 
they don't want the best for others. I lived near a bunch of Jerry Springer republicans when I was just starting out in my adult life. They want to put everyone down just look in the data base here at the immature comments. They think competitively & have inferiority complexes so the only way to feel up is top put others down. They don' t understand the motives behind the people who put out programs like Rush & fox programs. They can't see that it was not good that our last President took off with at lease 2 trillion dollars & this is money that went out of circulation. They don't understand that spending is good if it gives a person something of value like education & they they then send the money on to others. The can't see that the education then helps a person be an innovator. We need people to come up with something we can sell to other countries. I think many of them long for the past instead of seeing we only live now. My answer is summed up in one word Ignorance
 
it is if it nor for defense and health care in other word to protect the American people and not to keep ANY BUSINESS RUNNING. that what make inflation and monopoly and corruption
 
Uh, no. What Republicans are opposed to is government spending on what amounts to 'cow flatulence studies'. What you suggest is that this stimulus package is paying for the essentials of government, the functioning of our nation. It is not. Such things are built into the general budget and have been regularly funded for decades. Contrary to what Barry is telling you and his loyal followers, our schools are not crumbling and work on our nations physical infrastructure is and has been on going, again, for decades. What the democrats propose is spending on non-essentials and make work programs that are outside the purview of their responsibility. $400 million on STD awareness? How many millions on African aid? A few million to plant more grass seed at the national monument?You see, your mistake is in thinking that the government spends your money responsibly. I do not. There has been too much evidence of that. But perhaps that is the basic difference in our philosophies. You believe the government is the solution to our problems, I believe the government is part of the problem and that the people are the solution. Guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one. But I hope you have plenty of grandkids cuz someone is going to have to pay your tab.
 
Because they want to keep it all for themselves. They have, however, no problem spending everyone else's money on "security" and "keeping our freedoms safe."And you're right, the Democrats ARE more responsible party...Republicans have actually INCREASED the size of the gov't yet they are still yelling about less gov't. They are all deluded.
 
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