On Dec 23, 2007 9:04 PM, Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The national debt was about 5.7 trillion dollars when Bush took office > (the first time) and it grew to just over 7.1 trillion dollars during > his first term and is currently 9.1 trillion dollars. So in his first > four years he drove use 1.4 trillion dollars further into debt and > during the next three years increased that debt by twice that amount: > 2 trillion dollars of additional debt in just 3 years!!
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2007/pdf/hist.pdf And it's grown at a steady rate since the 40's. Look at page 146. Yes it's an issue but it's not a new one. Remember Clinton's surplus? Not showing up us it? > Bear in mind I've lived in Europe where they actually have a broad > spectrum of political parties. Let me tell you that both Bush and > Huckabee qualify as right-wing and Huckabee is certainly a > fundamentalist Christian (and from my p.o.v. Bush is pretty darned > fundamentalist as well). Besides embryonic stem cells, which I don't agree with but I understand his position, I don't see it. Larry will cry abstinence-only education but everything I read is it's mixed with regular sex-ed. Other then those two I don't see the religious aspect. > I was born and raised in Northern Ireland where Christians were > constantly killing each other because they practiced different flavors > of the SAME BLOODY RELIGION! Of course I don't like/trust religious > people! That's an exception not a rule. My limited knowledge tells me it had nothing to do with religion or the Pope and everything to do with nationality, politics and pwoer. > He gives me the creeps. Sorry for the negativity. As I say, of the > Republicans, he's the one I'd pick. That doesn't mean I like or trust > him. I don't like or trust any of them. That's fine, I was hoping you'd have a reason, feelings I can't debate. Back in the day I thought he was creepy and too unpolished to be in politics. Then I watched him transform NYC and am still in awe. He's a doer. After so many years of Koch and the attitude that you can't make waves and Dinkens do nothing approach, Gulliani shocked most when he made change happen. > You know, after 40 years of armed confrontation with the IRA, Blair's > move to *talks* actually yielded results. Politics often works better > than military force. Let's face it, Bush's "War on Terror" is a > pathetic failure. America is far more hated now - especially in Iraq - > than it was before Bush started on his "crusade". You're comparing near street gang thugs to a nation run by religious fundamentalists with huge amounts of oil money and the desire to acquire nuclear weapons to destroy their neighbors and conquer the middle-east. I don't think the President of The US should sit down and legitimize this lunatic. Send an ambassador or two but don't give him equality. The war on terror is working, why do you say Iraq hates the US? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:249074 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
