[Brilliant]

The reality, which is not being mentioned by the libs’, is that the spending on the war on terror is added into the GDP, and makes the economy look good, even though our standard of living has not substantially increased. But that is a choice that the American public (including the Dems) has made. They would rather be safe than have another chicken in the pot. And I can’t disagree with that choice. If you want to blame someone for the stagnating standard of living, blame the Islamacists who made this necessary.

[mylife]

I blame the “greenies”. We need energy to run this place and there IS a shortage due to China and India and the rest of the evolving world. We have plenty of the stuff but cant get at it because of the “greenies” and we have tied ourselves to the Middle East for fuel.

Then we went and tied our agricultural market to the energy market with ethanol.

Its madness

[marktwain]

“The reality, which is not being mentioned by the libs’, is that the spending on the war on terror is added into the GDP, and makes the economy look good, even though our standard of living has not substantially increased. But that is a choice that the American public (including the Dems) has made. They would rather be safe than have another chicken in the pot. And I can’t disagree with that choice. If you want to blame someone for the stagnating standard of living, blame the Islamacists who made this necessary.”

Bears repeating. Good post.