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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: May 2007
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It's the economy, stupid.
John wrote:
"Ceri Thomas" wrote in message
news:1Bhgj.20476$EA5.11445@pd7urf2no...
I'm sure it ran up much more than that as US foreign debt is 12.78trillion
as of June 2007. Then there is internal debt which is much higher as the
cost of war is at 2.1billion a month on average for the last four years
alone in Iraq. Not to mention the Afghanistan war, extremely expensive
homeland security, botched emergency effort in New Orleans, dozens of
natural disasters, domestic auto sector being wiped out. The list is long.
Most of your foreign debt is to Canada for energy, raw materials, food and
assorted other items. The only three areas on growth in the US is law
enforcement ( ironically things like 8million aliens aren't criminals),
armed forces and the medical fields. Sad state of direction for any
nation.
Do not lose focus on how and where they blew the money-
The one that really fry's me and should have a FULL investigation was when
Bush flew 10 BILLION IN CASH into the waiting hands of military contractors.
You can buy a LOT of votes and loyalty with 10 billion, just what did they
do to deserve such a reward? How much of that made it back to Bush family
coffers?
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