--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> , Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Actually, I was referring to the national debt, which is on track to double during Bush’s terms in office. __._,_.___
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> on 7/4/06 5:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > 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 doesn’t 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.
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