Who is the biggest spender in Washington?
Dr. Chuck Baldwin on October 14, 2005 answers this question as follows: “After nearly five years in office, the record is clear: President George W. Bush ranks among the biggest spending presidents in American history! With such a record, no person can honestly categorize G.W. Bush as a fiscal conservative. By comparison, Dubya’s spending habits make Bill Clinton look like a conservative! Writing for the Financial Times (7/15/05), Jim Cooper stated, ‘President George W. Bush has failed to impose discipline on congressional spending. His Republican Congress has, unsurprisingly, become headstrong and spendthrift as a result.’ Cooper continued by saying, ‘Mr. Bush is the first US president since James Garfield in 1881 to accept every bill that Congress sends him as if it were perfect. And Garfield only served six months in office.’ Again, Cooper wrote, ‘Most of the strong presidents in American history vetoed dozens, sometimes hundreds, of bills. Mr. Bush has vetoed none.’ Beyond that, ac
