Before the divide became red and blue there was a lot of talk that there wasn’t a nickel’s worth of difference between the Republicans and Democrats at the Federal Level.
Did Anyone Actually Read Bush's Budget? Education spending is through the roof: Even if Bush does convince Congress to trim back on education spending in 2007, the Department of Education's budget will be 80% bigger than when Bush took office. In the eight years Bill Clinton was in the White House, education spending climbed just 17%.Kind of makes you wonder if Hillary Clinton will be elected by running as the proven fiscal conservative candidate in 2008.
Bush's 2007 budget is an extremely modest attempt to rein in what has been one of the most prolific spending sprees in modern American history. Under Bush, overall federal spending has climbed 20%. And that's after adjusting for inflation. (By comparison, spending climbed 12.7% in real terms during the Clinton years.)
