Next generation will inherit our huge war debt

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 01/15/03 | RONALD BROWNSTEIN

[optimistically_conservative]

Can I be optimistic about you being blonde?

[Deb]

Can we appoint you to be the official worrier about the debt? Thanks. Then I can be free to look for my green sweater.

Let us know how it's goin' in say...yearly reports. Thanks again.

[libertarian guy]

the numbers I found on a quick search of www.bea.gov show that GDP in 1946 was 222.3 billion and in 2001 it was 10,028.2 billion (that's over ten trillion)

ain't that a growth of over 4,500%?

so whats the problem again?

[lewislynn]

Next generation will inherit our huge war debt

With this push to slash taxes during wartime, Bush broke from 140 years of history under presidents of both parties.

That's so when the richest 1% get their targeted job creating tax cut there'll be these huge, high paying jobs for the next generation to pay it off...some people just don't understand grand strategies.

[MissAmericanPie]

Sorry, my hair is raven wings black, just like the Cherokee side of my family.

[Sideshow Bob]

Next Generation will inherit our huge war debt

Has anyone told this to Picard yet?

[Karsus]

The problem is the amount of the budget the interest payments cost. Interest payments on the debt are the 2nd or 3rd largest item in the budget. That is the problem.

[Karsus]

If you want to pay my consulting rate I will be glad to take that position.

[dfwgator]

Next Generation will inherit our huge war debt

Make it so.

[Sideshow Bob]

Make it so.

Engage!

[MattAMiller]

Surely we can find some change rolling around in some program to study the breeding habits the Wyoming Ground Clam.

[optimistically_conservative]

When we owe more dollars than there are stars in our solar systemgalaxy, 200 billion, what difference does it make what a war on terror costs?

Our galaxy (Milky Way is the plane of the disk of our spiral galaxy) contains approximately 200,000,000,000 stars, mostly grouped into a flattened disk with a bulge at its centre.

You know, I never really thought about it that way. Imagine how "spatial" our 10 trillion GDP is?

[MissAmericanPie]

Good grief, I said Solar System instead of galaxy, ah well I may indeed be blonde.

[John O]

Ronald Brownstein is a Los Angeles Times national political correspondent.

Ronald Brownstein also has not done his homework. If I remember correctly tax CUTS always increase revenue. Leave the money in the hands of the people where it will expand the economy. A larger economy means you can take a smaller bite out of it (percentage wise) and end up with more than you started with. Reference President Reagan's cut and the first President Bush cut.

[neutrino]

Doesn't this seem a little bit off. We use more oil then anyone else. We're going to steal oil and then try to make a profit by selling it too ourselves????

No, we're not "stealing" it. Saddam H. has been funding terrorists and terrorism. He has been - and, I firmly believe, is - working to manufacture more WMD. He has been and is oppressing and murdering his own people. He still has not admitted what he did to some 600 still missing Kuwati citizens that he snatched during his invasion of that peaceful country.

By entering Iraq, we will be trully and actually liberating his people and his neighbors of a malicious (dare I say malignant?) influence that his destroyed a generation of people. After we cover our expenses plus overhead and a reasonable profit, they can use the oil to rebuild a happier, better society for themselves.

We will have redeemed their freedom - and that is a treasure worth far more than any oil they might have. They should thank us; and, frankly, I suspect that many of them will thank us.

[RightWhale]

Once Iraq and any follow-on battles are won.....once this war is won, the world will be forced to accept that we are the ONLY military, economic and diplomatic power in the world.

This isn't a football game.

[BlueLancer]

"Take the oil. Sell the stuff. Pay off the debt, plus shipping, handling, tax, title, dealer prep, gratuity, and handling charges."

"Doesn't this seem a little bit off. We use more oil then anyone else. We're going to steal oil and then try to make a profit by selling it too ourselves????"

We'll just do it like the old BlueBell Ice Cream ads ...

(to paraphrase) ...
"We'll use what we can ... and sell the rest"

[FreedomPoster]

Bingo! I can't believe it took to post 10 for the obvious answer to appear.

[RJayneJ]

Thanks for the nomination! };^D)