[Monty22]

Didn't we finally bury this old pony on 9/11? sigh..

[Support Free Republic]

Donate, Or Snuggles The Fabric Softener Bear Gets It!
	Donate Here By Secure Server Or mail checks to FreeRepublic , LLC PO BOX 9771 FRESNO, CA 93794 or you can use PayPal at Jimrob@psnw.com
STOP BY AND BUMP THE FUNDRAISER THREAD

[Uncle George]

Better to have a debt than to have no Country.

[Hobsonphile]

There's an easy way to solve this problem. Stop pouring my money into BS like the Department of Education.

[SunStar]

Where's the f**kin BARF ALERT?

[MissAmericanPie]

We are 34 trillion dollars in debt, when is this bright day coming when we are not in debt? When we owe more dollars than there are stars in our solar system, 200 billion, what difference does it make what a war on terror costs?

[Nick Danger]

I enjoyed crushing our enemies, and seeing them driven before us, but I tire of the lamentations of their women.

[neutrino]

War debt, eh?

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

Simple!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Funny, I don't remember anybody moaning about how much Vietnam cost. I have a good way to defray costs. Quit pissing it away on things like Social Security, Medicare, the Department of Education, the EPA, the IRS, and giving huge multi-million dollar grants to liberal artsy-fartsy "non-profit" organizations.

[SandRat]

And the point is . . . ? Did not the baby boomers inherit the debt from the "greatest generation?" And the late baby boomers from the "Korean Police Action?" And my own son from Johnson' "Guns and Butter?" Wake up out there, there is always going to be some sort of big deficit.

[LdSentinal]

In every major conflict the United States has fought since the Civil War (and some minor ones), Washington has raised taxes to pay for war.

Right . . . like you Bush Sr. voted to raise taxes and he was hounded by the media and the Democrats for doing it and along came Ross Perot to split the Republican vote.

The liberal media has been in high-gear ever since November 5, 2002, and shows no sign of slowing down.

[Brett66]

Tax cuts cost nothing, only government spending costs.

[Mariner]

Oil locked at $20/bbl for the next 20 years will easily pay THAT debt:)

The world is about to change very radically.

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.

Through the imposition of political stability and a low price/stable rate of energy production, our beneficiaries will pay our debt.

Our era, whether right or wrong, is the pinnacle of war as business by other means.

Sure, there are security and moral issues at play......but their combined weight is not enough to cause us to war against Cuba, China and Pakistan rather than Iraq and some other Arab countries sure to follow.

The US intends to "control" the bulk of the worlds marketed oil.......and I say better us than anyone else.

[DensaMensa]

}optimistically_conservative signed up 2002-12-17.

That's nothing. You should see the war debt WE inherited for saving Europe from itself!

[dasboot]

Hey, wait a minute:

I bought a house a long time ago and financed $80,000 to do it. Today I'm sittin' on a quarter mil after retiring that old debt and paying taxes and the real estate guy. I will pass this on to my children. So, like, their real pissed-off about that.

Static analysis......how conVENEient.

[merak]

If you do warfare the way Jenghis Khan did it, it's possible to MAKE money at it...

[moodyskeptic]

What did you do in the Gulf War of 2003 Daddy?

Well, honey, I sat on my priveledged fat a** and complained about the cost of war, the right wing kooks and our president because he didn't represent my Democrap Party. Thousands of us brave liberals spoke up, enough to swing public opinion so that America equivocated again, and the UN allowed terrorism to flourish because they also hate America. When the small nuclear bombs blasted New York, Atlanta and Hollywood, we true liberals tried to contact the muslims to show them we were sensitive to their cause.

Alas, as we sit here in our Infidel Camp awaiting execution, you should be proud of Daddy, he did not succomb to the hate speech of the right wing. Stand proud as they kill you.

[Hila]

More problematic is that this generation inherited all the ways in which the former presidency lacked responsibility and patriotism. Greater burden is that the regimes of the world now want to combat the freedoms of the USA, and they are doing it with the help rendered to them by former leaders of our land. Yes, this generation and the next have a lot to deal with because of the sins of the politicians that took their positions of power without accountability.

[Andy from Beaverton]

I totally hate these confusing titles to the news articles.

[dfwgator]

Let's say you are making $30,000 a year and renting an apartment, obviously your level of debt is low since you don't have a mortgage. Now you make $100,000 a year and you buy a nice house and the mortgage is $100,000. Your level of debt skyrocketed to $100,000, but guess what? You are making more money as well to cover the debt. So while in absolute terms the debt has gone up, the GNP has also gone up such that the debt as a percentage of the GNP hasn't changed. But politicians love to use the debt as a bogeyman to scare everybody into voting for them.