--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 7/4/06 5:50 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife% 40yahoogroups.com> > > , Rick Archer <groups@> wrote: > >> > > >> > on 7/4/06 5:04 PM, MDixon6569@ at MDixon6569@ wrote: > >> > > >>> > > In a message dated 7/4/06 1:57:42 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > >>> > > groups@ writes: > >>>> > >> > >>>> > >> on 7/4/06 12:38 PM, shempmcgurk at shempmcgurk@ 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. > > > Actually, I was referring to the national debt, which is on track to double > during Bush¹s terms in office. >
I stand corrected: it's more like an 70% increase at current rates, not 40% as I suggested or a doubling as you suggested. Here are the figures since January 2001 (when Bush took office): 09/30/2005 $7,932,709,661,723.50 09/30/2004 $7,379,052,696,330.32 09/30/2003 $6,783,231,062,743.62 09/30/2002 $6,228,235,965,597.16 09/28/2001 $5,807,463,412,200.06 09/29/2000 $5,674,178,209,886.86 from: http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm ...and the current amount (to today): 06/30/2006 $8,420,041,947,892.19 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/
