The Project for the New American Century September 2000
REBUILDING AMERICA’S DEFENSES

Yet Bush got himself elected by saying just the opposite October 2000

This wasn't just a candidate whose idealism ran up against cold hard reality, this was an administration that from the beginning intentionally deceived the public and it's political base in the most glaring manner.

I remember listening with great joy when Bush said we would stop the nation building and have a more humble foreign policy. Not only did he not mean it, but he and his cohorts were laying the foundation to do just the opposite of everything he said.

Now this isn't to condemn Republicans at the expense of Democrats. Obviously Bush was offering his lies as a juxtaposition to Gore, to the Wilsonian types that dominated Democrat thinking. Somehow the political parties continue to be able to deceive the public into believing there's a legitimate debate between more and less government, when nothing could be further from the truth.

The RAD report admits that the balanced budgets and surpluses of the 90s were due to increased tax revenues and decreased military spending. Of course the RAD's positions decries the decreases in military spending. It is instructive none the less in the present deficit crisis that neither party is touching one iota of military spending and refuses to tax the run away expansion of the ultra-wealthy.

Instead there's a growing assault on Social Security and Medicare as the villains of the budget, despite the fact that at present they are running a 2 trillion dollar surplus. I certainly have no problem with adjustments and reasonable reforms to these programs as has been done in the past. But until and unless military spending is drastically cut and the ultra-wealthy are taxed more soundly, it is gravely immoral to steal from the benefits the public has paid for through taxation.