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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (287621)	5/26/2006 2:06:27 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573505

Damn! Until 2001, this country had a surplus. Now our debt is growing by leaps and bounds. What changed? The bursting of the dot.com / Nasdaq bubble along with a general market decline. 9/11. Katrina. A large increase in government spending (which includes Iraq, but is mostly for other things besides Iraq). As for tax cuts see Message 22470737 "It is more reasonable to divide the deficit up proportionately among the various spending categories. Measured that way the war in Iraq only causes a small portion of our deficit." No it isn't. I refuse to agree to what accommodates your dangerous ideology. Yes, any spending increases you don't like get 100% counted as increasing the deficits, any spending increase you do like don't get counted. That makes a lot of sense... Well maybe it does, as a rhetorical device if you can convince people to buy it but it doesn't make any logical sense.