Chuck,
It is nice to see you are thinking rational.


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OlBlueEyes wrote:
"Dixon" wrote in
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The value of the all the worlds gold
would not even pay one- fifth of our debt.

But selling the superfluous properties the govt owns would pay it all
off.

Hell yes. Who needs some wide open space where the deer and the
antelope play, anyway?

Yellowstone? Pave that sucka and put up a WalMart. They can use
geothermal energy for heat.

Yosemite? Can you say ticky tacky condos? We could hang actual pictures
in all the picture windows, so the new residents will know what the
place looked like before the cinderblocks blocked the view.

Gettysburg? Leave a statue off in a corner someplace, and carve it up
with cul-de-sacs and a strip mall.

Little Bighorn? Put up a refrigerated desert concession and advertise
it as Custard's Last "Stand".

If there are any of those pesky darned birds and animals still hanging
around, shoot the critters after sending a couple of dozen off to
various zoos. Lop off those dang trees while we're at it. Didn't Rush
Limbaugh tell us all that pollution is actually caused by trees?

As far as the Capitol Mall goes, who the hell needs that in this day
and age? Send all the congresspeople home, let them debate in chatrooms
and vote on the internet. No point in maintaining the Federal Justice
Building, either; we'll just let Bush decide who gets shot and who
should live, much simpler than screwing around with a bunch of ACLU
liberal lawyers in any case.

Once we get the debt down to zero by selling off all the government
property in the US, we can go back to spending like a bunch of drunks
on a holiday and be back to almost $8 TRILLION in debt, (thank GWB for
the last $2.5 trillion of that) before we know it.