@hightor,
You can repeat it until the cows come home (and throw in a Latin phrase to try to convince me you are right), but you are not.
Govt spending has increased dramatically - you do realize that caution when spending other people's money is the main premise of conservatism, right? Ooh, how awful!
No, you little pischer, back just a few decades ago when most everyone attended church, when most people with children were married to each other) and owned a home, when the children all had the same last name, when the three-some was not performed by high school students, when mommies mostly were not covered in tats, when neither of your parents had ever been in jail (and neither had you), when few people were or knew an addict, when there was not a child murdered by its own parent daily, when terrorism was word seldom spoken (or experienced) our country was far more right. As it was founded.
Your education didn't teach you history, how to derive a conclusion from facts, or that 2+2 do indeed equal 4. It just filled your brain with sludge.