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
plants, airports, or on wind, solar and nuclear power for the United States.

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