Letter: This president hardly a fiscal conservative

Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007 | 7:18 a.m.

The letter Wednesday by Richard Rychtarik, "Big spender Bush suddenly a budget miser," sums up my feelings 100 percent when talking about our president. Calling George W. Bush a fiscal conservative is like believing pigs can now fly and the sun comes up in the west and sets in the east.

Now that the Democrats have taken control of Congress, Mr. Bush has found his veto pen and has started using it, saying the current Congress is fiscally irresponsible. I find that line of thinking a little astounding, if not pathetic.

From 2001 to 2006 a Republican-controlled Congress and a Republican president spent money like a drunken sailor on leave. The amount of pork that was signed into law during those six years makes the New Deal spending of FDR during the Great Depression look a little bit like a weekend spending spree at a local mall.

Under the inept leadership of George W. Bush we have accumulated the largest budget deficit in our history. We are borrowing billions weekly to pay for an unneeded war in the Middle East and to continue funding the huge tax cut that was given to America's rich. I'm sure we all can remember what Bush called America's rich. I believe he referred to them as "my base."

How much longer can we continue to follow the failed policies of a president who refuses to do what is best for a majority of Americans? How much longer will we have to listen to Bush calling himself a fiscal conservative?

Larry Burgess, Henderson