Actual Boater wrote:

:Fred J. McCall wrote:
: Actual Boater wrote:
:
: wrote:
: : On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:05:45 -0400, Actual Boater wrote:
: :
: :
: : I just *love* the latest rounds of taxpayer-supported bailouts of
: : private corporations.
: :
: : So far, U.S. rescue efforts to stabilize the financial system and housing
: : market amount to about $900 billion. If this continues, pretty soon
: : we'll be talking some real money. ;-(
: :
: :
: :If you really want your blood to boil, take that $10 billion a month we
: :are pouring down the toilet of Iraq and think about what sort of impact
: :that sort of expenditure would have on our economy if half of it were
: :spent *here* on rebuilding our crumbing roads, bridges, hospitals,
: :treatment plants, schools, wind power, solar power, nuclear power, et
: :cetera, and taxes on the wealthy were raised to pay for it.
: :
:
: Uh, where do you THINK it's being spent?
:
:
:Not on our crumbling roads, bridges, hospitals, schools, treatment
lants, airports, or on wind, solar and nuclear power for the United States.
:

You really need to look into how this whole 'government' thing works.
Most of the things you cite are NOT done with federal government
funding.

:
:The money being blown on materiel we are shipping to Iraq could be more
:wisely spent on building solar power panels or electric cars.
:

Not really, no, since neither of those things is really ready yet.
Besides which, market forces will (and should) determine when stuff
like that happens, not government spending.

Although I suppose I wouldn't object to the government buying me a
car...

While you're looking things up, you should probably also take a look
at just what that $10 billion a month is spent on, where it's spent,
etc. You really come across as quite clueless.

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