...2002, before the Iraq war, this ratio had risen to 16 percent. The estimated federal expenditure-to-GDP ratio for 2008, George W. Bush's last year, is 17.2 percent, more than 2 percentage points above Clinton's. So much for Republican expenditure cutting....
...only good for working Americans, but was the patriotic way to go. Remember voodoo economics? That was the derisive term George H.W. Bush used for Ronald Reagan’s fantasy that he could simultaneously increase defense spending, cut taxes and balance the...
...the Guantanamo prison camp.” This litany would surely be enough to elect Barack Obama if he were in a contest against George W Bush. But it weighs nearly as heavily against John McCain. With the honorable exception of his opposition to torture, the...
Background
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the forty-first President of the United States (1989–1993). Before his presidency, Bush held a multitude of political positions, including Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan (1981–1989).
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