dave weil wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:14:19 -0700, "mikemckelvy"
wrote:


"dave weil" wrote in message
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It was a disaster and created more racism than it got rid of.


They invented deficit spending, they abolished the gold standard.

Ummmmmm, who's taken that to new levels? Created the Platinum
Standard? (here's a hint, who actually balanced the budget

The GOP is why we have a balanced budget.

I meant to say that there *is* no balanced budget. Why, just
yesterday, the Administration announced the largest deficit in
history. And, guess what, it doesn't matter *what* percentage it is of
GNP, it's still an UNBALANCED BUDGET.

You lose.

Again.


It's a very small debt compared to the debt run up by the dems in the past
when seen in light of GDP as is the custom.


Bull****. Prove that a $450,000,000,000 deficit is "small". It's over
4% of GNP. And imagine if President Bush included the cost of the war
in Iraq, something that he's hiding from the deficit at the moment...

AND the difference between the past surplus and the current defecit.

It's a huge sum of pork and fat - which you can't lay on anyone but
the Republicans in charge. They own the majority of Congress, the
White House, and the Supreme Court.

They get what they want and like anyone who has the security
removed, goes on a mad rush and grab for anything in the store
that they can get ahold of.

Oh - half of that money is being funnelled into all sorts of
black-ops and covert projects and things like a new-age Star-Wars
system. 600 billion in domectic spending is kind of hard to explain
as anyone's fault but those in power who have absolute control over
everything.

And conservatives are ****ed off too. Rightfully so.

My town - the local school district is over a million in the red due
state funds dissapearing. They had to have local fund drives to get
citizens to pay out of their pocket. We have outrageous taxes here
as well. It still wasn't enough.

If the money wasn't raised, the *public* school in our town would
have had to shut down next year. Not a private school, but the
government mandated state-governed public school. No classes - sorry.
No money. In a town where the average house price is $600,000.

This isn't Compton or D.C. or some other rathole, but one of the
best upper-class communities in California. And yet our school
district is having to ask for money from the community to keep
its doors open.

Next year it is projected to be 1.5 million. We can spend money on
bailing out corporations and fighting wars and funding missile defense
systems and so on - which are good things IF you have the basics covered
already - but we can't keep our schools open? We can't keep energy prices
in line?

That sort of mismanagement by the people in charge gets even the
staunchest conservatives more than a little angry as family and
children and education are huge on their radars.