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To: FlyVet
I voted for W twice, but sometimes his throwing massive amounts of money at problems with no accountability is sickening. Katrina, for example, and truckloads of US currency thrown around like candy in Iraq, for another example.

I will never forget the time he visited H. Rodham Clinton and "Chuckles" Schummer right after 9/11, and asked them flat out how much money they wanted. They looked like kids in a candy store, and blurted out that they "needed" $40 billion dollars (amazing how they could figure that out, mere hours after the attack).

You could tell that they thought he'd be a bit shrewder than he was -- a bit smarter than he was.

You could see the look of surprise on their faces when he immediately replied sure, ok, $40 billion it is, you'll get that amount.

(I could also imagine them thinking what idiots they were, for not asking for a hundred billion!)

He's always been s sucker for a hard-luck story -- as long as he's able to reach into the next guy's pocket to fish out the checkbook!

69 posted on 12/31/2006 8:17:37 PM PST by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: Don Joe
He's always been s sucker for a hard-luck story -- as long as he's able to reach into the next guy's pocket to fish out the checkbook!

It is annoying, to say the least.

The only upside to all this money-vomiting is that I think part of the reason he did it was to prop up the economy.

Since I'm not an economist and don't even resemble one, I don't understand is why it hasn't caused massive inflation. Or, why pumping up the national debt hasn't caused it. Yet. Tax cuts, good. Pork spending by ignorant self-serving pols, bad.

73 posted on 12/31/2006 8:47:02 PM PST by FlyVet
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To: Don Joe
He's always been s sucker for a hard-luck story -- as long as he's able to reach into the next guy's pocket to fish out the checkbook!

Sad, but true. What's sadder is that this is true of about 90% of our politicians.

118 posted on 01/01/2007 6:49:22 PM PST by meyer (Bring back the Contract with America and you'll bring back the Republican majority.)
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