--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 7/4/06 5:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 7/4/06 1:57:42 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> > >> on 7/4/06 12:38 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> > >>> And Thomas Friedman's point is well taken as well: he says that Bush > >>> should do with energy what Kennedy did in '63 with the space program > >>> (you know: "send a man to the moon and bring him safely back to > >>> Earth"). Commit the country to finding alternative fuels and > >>> getting us off the back of oil. > >>> > >> Yes. He should have done that instead of spending hundreds of billions on > >> his war. > > Why didn't Clinton do it when he had a 10 trillion dollar surplus? > > > He should have, but that doesn¹t excuse creating an 8 trillion dollar > deficit. >
I dont' know where you guys get your "10 trillion dollar surplus" and "8 trillion dollar deficit": the entire U.S. budget this year was about $2.8 trillion and the deficit was several hundreds of billions of dollars. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
