Bell supports increased spending for the Texas public education system.

He consistently supported increased spending on the military and veterans.

History suggests that members of both parties are likely to support even higher military spending next year than Mr. Bush has proposed.

The planners and environmentalists said they believed Nassau voters would support additional public spending for open space.

He strongly supported veterans' benefits, military spending and a law against desecration of the American flag.

But like the Corbetts, millions of households borrowed heavily against their homes, often to help support greater spending.

Both major parties, Democratic and Republican, supported increased spending in different ways.

But millions of households borrowed heavily against their homes, often to support ever greater spending.

That impulse to help is in keeping with what pollsters find about women voters - they're more likely to support social spending and activist government.

To support such spending, people are deciding not to save.