If you want numbers, here they are. Bush came to office with a surplus left by Clinton and a $5 trillion national debt. The longterm unfunded fiscal committments calculated by GAO was at $20 trillion. Bush is now on pace to DOUBLE the national debt and almost triple the longterm unfunded fiscal committments. The Bush administration has given as lies every year by grossly underestimating the federal deficit. In 2006, it was claimed to be about $250 billion and a team of expert accountants using accrual accounting methods (the only methods used in the real world) came up with $4.6 trillion. The Bush administration has given us another claim that it is about $250 billion, and one can only assume the real deficit once again is in the same $4.6 trillion area. The oil industry made collectively $129 billion in profits last year while getting $10-20 billion in subsidies, tax breaks - not to mention drilling on public lands with no lease. Bush Republicans are directly responsible for putting the subsidies back into the energy bill after Democrats were planning to remove them from oil and provide incentives.

In short, you have the most reckless spending in history by the Bush Republicans, and the only alternative provided by the Democrats is to stop Republican spending and replace it with Democrat spending for social programs and benefits. No one in Washington DC has the concept of actually SAVING money and then paying down the debt other than Ron Paul.

Illegal immigrants impact on the economy is two sided. They are a burden on taxpayers for social, legal, educational and other services. On the other hand, without illegals in the fields harvesting crops, produce prices would most likely double.

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