Lol, point of whole thread is Bush spending more money then Clinton all the while demanding we have a smaller government.
You called me on the numbers, and rightly corrected me, on how much more it was. We eventually came up with an average number of about 25% more spent from Bush.
Clinton was running a surplus with his spending Bush is running a deficit.
You said that a million dollars was not a lot of money, I disagreed. Never did I say I chose not save money, I just tried to bring a little reality back to you on where someone who is "average" in income would be spending their money.
Yes playing the lottery is really a poor tax, it is also a clever marketing strategy, it lets people who are poor and middle class dream about what it would be like to be a millionare and what they would spend the money on. It suprises them at how quickly it can go and how all those high end expensive toys can absorb a million dollars like it was nothing. It makes them think that a million dollars therefore is nothing.
Its a lot and it takes a lot of hard work, inheritance, or luck to get. I am all for hard work, I work hard each and everyday and put in lots of overtime in order to get ahead and well you were offly flippant about dismissing a million dollars as if it was a pitance.