Jack Smith writes
http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?tag=harpers ...from Harper's, Jan 2009. "Using conservative assumptions, we calculate that the bill for the Bush-era: the total new debt combined with the total new accrued obligations amounts to $10.35 trillion..." If you reduce the US population down to the number of significant taxpayers (i.e. start with 250 million and eliminate children, elderly, unemployed and the grey economy) then this works out to what? ...about $100,000 per taxpayer. What a bargain! Bush and Cheney are now working diligently to "correct" the history of their watch, as it has been terribly distorted by the 'liberal' free press, as we all know -- and to cast this fine administration into something more than the absolute worst in American History. Maybe they will succeed, since history is written by the winners and Bu$h's constituency is certainly the huge winner, at least financially. Money talks and there are always a few historians for sale. Therefore, along with Pat Robertson and Rush Bimbo, let me speak for all vorticians in expressing out extreme gratitude for these eight strong years of tireless effort in the War on Terror - and to be have made our nation so much more secure from these heathens by getting them 'confessing the truth' down there at Gitmo ... and for ridding us of ~100,000 of our non-believing enemies (never mind that these were innocent civilians - you know: "collateral damage". http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ > Are we a paper tiger? Let's find out. Maybe we don't really want to know .... Jones
