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Neal Brootz....

SO .. NOW I "HATE" REPUBLICANS

There are a lot of listeners out there who really need to make some attempt at growing up. Well, maybe not a lot of listeners .. but quite a few.

Yesterday I spent some time on the air detailing the spending habits of the Republicans since they gained control of both the legislative and executive branches of our Imperial Federal Government. Federal government spending has gone up by 33 percent since George W. Bush took office. For those of you who think that we were spending enough when Clinton was president ... just imagine spending one-third more! Think about this one ... During every year that Clinton was president and the Republicans controlled the House of Representatives the final budget was less than the budget proposed by Clinton. Congressional Republicans at least put some effort into holding back spending. But what about the Bush years? Every single year since George W. Bush was sworn in the Republican congress has passed a final budget that spent more than Bush requested. More, not less.

Now don't give me that nonsense about defense and homeland security spending. When you back out the numbers for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and homeland security spending Bush and the Republicans are still spendthrifts. You might be interested in knowing that there have only been two presidents in the last 40 years under whom both discretionary non-defense spending and defense spending have gone up. Those two presidents are Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush.

The truth here is that the Republicans are no longer the party of less government and less government spending. When it comes to government spending and the growth of government there seems to be no difference between Democrats and Republicans.

Now ... to get to the point here. As soon as I went on the air to detail the heavy spending habits of the Republicans I started getting the email messages telling me what a evil person I am because of my "hatred" of Republicans. That's right. I "hate" Republicans because I don't like the way they spend money.

Some of you need to grow up. Do you realize how silly and childish you look when you stumble forth with that "hate" nonsense? Is that the intellectual contribution you have to make to this debate? Someone makes you a bit uncomfortable by detailing the profligate spending habits of your political party, and all you can come up with is "I'm never going to listen to you again because you hate Republicans." What are you going to do next? Stomp your feet and hold your breath until you turn blue? Face it .. your political party has some pretty big zits. The solution is not to break the mirror.

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