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November 29, 2004
Phil Gramm
There are rumors that Phil Gramm wants to be the next Treasury Secretary and I think he would be a great choice. Phil Gramm is the ideal Republican in a lot of ways: an old angry cheap guy that is not going to waste any money. That is the main reason God put Republicans on this planet.
My main problem with Bush (and Republicans in general over the past 10 years) has been that he has not done anything to even slow the growth of non-defense oriented government spending. Now Bush never really claimed to be a small government Republican guy, but a lot of the rest of the party did and so far they have yet to actually cut the size of government and are as free with pork and waste as the Democrats were when they ran the country. Considering that most of the federal government budget goes to wealth redistribution (social security, agriculture subsidies, etc.) it should not be too hard cut it or at least stop the growth.
While in the senate Phil Gramm did more than anyone else in the senate to slow the growth of government and to make the government act fiscally responsible. He would be a great choice to help Bush stop spending so much.
Posted by Pete at November 29, 2004 03:30 PM
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