"Brian Nystrom" wrote in message
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Paddlec1 wrote:
No, but unlike you, my life doesn't revolve around scouring the internet
for bad news that I can whine about. I have a life to live.


It's your "doom and gloom". It belongs to you and the rest of the neocon
cheeleaders for death. Don't blame the messenger.

Unlike you, I don't see the world as "doom and gloom" or hopeless and I
reject your pathethic "message".

Have fun paying down that seven and a half trillion dollar debt your
"conservative" president gave you.

As usual, you're wrong. Yes, the debt ceiling has been raised, but most of
the debt existed before Bush took office.

That may depend on which Bush you are referring to.
http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

BTW: Here are some numbers.

Date Amount

09/30/2004 $7,379,052,696,330.32
09/30/2003 $6,783,231,062,743.62
09/30/2002 $6,228,235,965,597.16
09/28/2001 $5,807,463,412,200.06
09/29/2000 $5,674,178,209,886.86
09/30/1999 $5,656,270,901,615.43
09/30/1998 $5,526,193,008,897.62
09/30/1997 $5,413,146,011,397.34
09/30/1996 $5,224,810,939,135.73
09/29/1995 $4,973,982,900,709.39
09/30/1994 $4,692,749,910,013.32
09/30/1993 $4,411,488,883,139.38
09/30/1992 $4,064,620,655,521.66
09/30/1991 $3,665,303,351,697.03
09/28/1990 $3,233,313,451,777.25
09/29/1989 $2,857,430,960,187.32
09/30/1988 $2,602,337,712,041.16
09/30/1987 $2,350,276,890,953.00

So we see that, when Bush took office in 2000, the debt was already 5.6
trillion. And in 4 years, he has escalated it by 1.8 trillion. The last time
the debt was escalated by that amount was from the previous 9 years, from
1991 until 2000. And the last time it escalated by 1.8 trillion before that
was from before this data. So even if Bush 'inherited' the debt, 87% of it
is from Bush Sr, Reagan and Bush Jr. 33% of it is from Junior alone, so far.

By the way, for a real eye-opener, try graphing this data on excel. Then
project to 2008. Here, I'l help you:
http://www.die.net/musings/national_debt/

--riverman