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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (726765)	2/19/2006 10:20:47 AM
From: tonto	Respond to of 769670

Right, you show how high interest rates killed our economy during the Carter years. Econ 101...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (726765)	2/19/2006 10:21:18 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Dishonest editing of news stories. You've been warned about that...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (726765)	2/19/2006 10:36:01 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

During the Presidency of George HW Bush, that number rose to 67.3 % peaking at 67.3% in 1996. Who was Prez in 1996?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (726765)	2/19/2006 10:38:38 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"This kind of spending can spur economic activity. The Depression ended when World War II began and the government was forced to borrow and spend a lot of money, which jump-started the struggling economy and spurred decades of prosperity." Kenneth E. Phillipps your source says the above. Honest men also know 911 made the need for the War on Terror and that is also that kind spending.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (726765)	2/19/2006 3:06:24 PM
From: JBTFD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

There is something I think most people ignore when they hear numbers like this. They ignore the fact that someone owns this debt. Right now it is mostly Japan and China that are buying our debt. I heard recently that Japan last year made more from their interest on the debt they own than they made from their manufacturing economy. I think the current administration would do just about anything to avoid an economic downturn.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (726765)	2/19/2006 5:03:55 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

If those locust finally come, after 230 years, they will no longer take the children away. You SS welfare queens are far easier pickings. You GO, locusts!!!...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (726765)	2/19/2006 5:11:03 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

Your left-bent no-credibility "pollsters" are scared to DEATH to ask questions about GOD and COUNTRY issues. They never do, even though that beat Kerry, AND will destroy the Democrats in 2006 and 2008...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (726765)	2/19/2006 11:25:30 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 769670

Britain is the world's second biggest arms dealer after the United States, with sales worth more than £3billion. Two bullets are produced every minute for every man, woman and child on the planet. Every minute, someone in the world is killed by conventional weapons. A third of countries spend more on their military than they do on health. The UK, US and France earn more from arms sales to developing nations than they give in aid. There are 639million small arms in the world - one for every 10 people - and eight million more are produced every year.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (726765)	2/20/2006 6:51:12 AM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

When silence isn't golden Leonard Pitts Jr. is a columnist for the Miami Herald They'd take my columnist license away if I didn't write about Dick Cheney today. There are, I suppose, other things going on in the world, but they pale in comparison. Heck, it's not every day a vice president of the United States shoots a guy. As even the remotest village in Malawi must have heard by now, Cheney did just that during a quail hunt on Feb. 11 in Texas. While aiming at a bird, he accidentally sprayed his hunting companion, 78-year-old attorney Harry Whittington, with bird shot. This was promptly disclosed to the public. Just 18 hours later. And even then, the notification was made not through a statement issued by the vice president's office, as you would expect, but by a private citizen, the woman who owned the ranch where the shooting took place. Cheney himself did not publicly address the incident until four days later when he gave an interview to Fox News. Not surprisingly, the V.P. has become the punch line to a national joke. The Daily Show dubbed him "No. 2 With A Bullet." David Letterman called him a weapon of mass destruction. Even one of my students got in on the fun, saying this incident, like the Iraq war, illustrates the administration's penchant for shooting first and asking questions later. Perhaps I'm simply jealous those worthies got all the good jokes first, but when I consider the incident - and more important, the vice president's handling of it - my first response is not laughter. Unless you mean that pathetic laugh-to-keep-from-crying kind of laughter. In which case, yeah. Because it occurs to me that this is not just a microcosm of the Iraq war, but of the entire Bush administration. The analogy is almost painfully perfect: bad decision leads to unfortunate outcome leads to stone wall of arrogance, secrecy and silence. We could be talking about torture, Abu Ghraib, WMDs, wiretapping, the Valerie Plame leak... . But we're talking about a hunting accident. Point being, it is not scandal, war, corruption or anything else of national import. Nor does it carry any suggestion of nefarious behavior. Addressed promptly and openly, it's the kind of story that would ordinarily flare up and flare out in a day or two. Does anybody even remember the story about the guy who sustained minor injuries in a bike accident with President Bush last year? To the degree this has metastasized into something more, it reflects disquiet over the closed nature of this administration and its utter disdain for the right of the people to know. And Cheney's claim, made in the Fox interview, that somehow this boils down to media pique at having been kept out of the loop, is silly. It seems to have escaped his notice that he is the vice president of the United States. What happens to him and the President is of national interest. How many other bicycle mishaps made national news last year? You have to ask yourself: If they're this close-mouthed about a hunting accident, what kinds of secrets do they keep on matters that matter? What information should you and I have that we don't? What things should we know that we won't until it's too late? Not national security secrets, mind you. Just basic information on a government that is, by the way, employed by, and accountable to, us. But we have a President who lives in a yes-man bubble from whence he ventures to hold news conferences only slightly more often than pigs fly. We have a government that has quietly removed millions of government documents from the public domain. And we have a vice president who treats a hunting accident like a nuclear secret. Not coincidentally, we also have a dubious war based on a dubious premise with a U.S. casualty count - dead and injured - of more than 19,000 and rising. And suddenly it doesn't bother me so much that all the good jokes are taken. This stuff gets less funny everyday.