Thus said "Doran L. Barton" on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:25:31 MDT: > A trillion dollars? Try 57 trillion dollars. It's a lot worse than > anyone knows.
Are you referring to the ``unfunded liabilities'' figure which I recently read is nearing $60 trillion? Then there's the national debt at $10 trillion. Mind boggling numbers to be sure, but then this is surely the cost of maintaining a democracy. > I don't know who's buying whose vote... Maybe they are buying the vote of confidence from the public that still gives our current form of government legitimacy? Legitimacy is a bipartisan issue. You pose a really good question actually... if one believes the stimulus package to be bipartisan and that it wasn't intended as a political move to buy votes in some sense or another, what then is the real motive? Can we really assume it was to help out Americans? If so, why don't they just let us keep the fruits of our labors to begin with to cause a continuing stimulus year after year? Andy -- [-----------[system uptime]--------------------------------------------] 8:25pm up 56 min, 1 user, load average: 1.09, 1.13, 1.07 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
