Kerry: More Big Spending Promised

[El Barto]

Kerry Promises Teachers Big Spending

[jokerswild]

simply the truth.

[Rooster71]

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Kerry Promises Teachers Big Spending

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This is one of the Republican's biggest lies ever perpetuated, the lie that Democrats always spend, spend, spend. I challenge the poster of this thread to provide evidence that ANY Republican administration has had a balanced budget in modern times.

What is so bad with spending for education anyway?

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As an educator who has been fighting for the last year and half to get hired full time in the face of budget cuts at the state and federal levels, spending more on education would be in my best interests as well as those of my students.

NT

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Spending on education? The Horror!

Think of the future impact that could have. Where will we get the large mass of uneducated people whose only choice will be to work for Chinese Slave Labor rates? How are we going to compete with the global low-rate labor market if we educate the general population?

Education is for the people whose Daddy's can buy their way into Yale.

[sameoldsht]

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This is one of the Republican's biggest lies ever perpetuated, the lie that Democrats always spend, spend, spend.

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Funny! Any other jokes?

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Ok John Cole I believe has stated that the money spent by Bush is directed in an undesirable way. With that said, education spending under Clinton increased 20% total in 8 years at an annualized rate of 2.3%. Much less than GDP growth. Under Bush, in 4 years education spending has increased by a whopping 53% at an annualized rate of 11% which is much higher than GDP growth.

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So you are in favor of raising taxes and using the money to trim the deficit I take it. However, the Kerry tax proposal won't eliminate the budget deficit, far from it in fact. If you agree that this is true, spending cuts will have to be made irregardless if you want to erase the budget deficit in the next 4 years. Not sure what you'd cut, I would guess the DOD which is a reasonable choice and I believe it's worth debating what the DOD should be like and how it should change.

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sameold,

Your 'sht' is tiresome. This was a substantive post about spending and balanced budgets. Would you care to refute the fact that we operated under massive deficits with Reagan, Bush I, and W, but under Clinton the budget was balanced?

NT

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Where do these numbers come from?