But going from theory to actual practice, I would look back over the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century and I see Harding reducing spending as percentage of GDP in the early 20s, Truman reducing it in the mid-1940s, Reagan reducing it in the mid 1980s, and Clinton reducing it in the mid-1990s, and each period follows or is followed by a rather dramatic expansion of the nation's economy.
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That is a supreme insult to the millions of legal immigrants who enter our country every year by obeying our laws.
They were staffed better, and like I said, we typically only have one deputy on patrol at a time.
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