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To: Held_to_Ransom
And just how do you use this piece of idle humor to explain the 80 million dollar deficit at the time of the Morrill tariff?

An economic recession hit the country and, combined with excessive government spending, put the country into deficit. It was called the Panic of 1857. Look it up.

533 posted on 09/14/2003 6:43:31 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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To: WhiskeyPapa
How cute. Walt's found himself a friend. Oh well, idiots always do gravitate to their own.
534 posted on 09/14/2003 6:46:12 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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