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

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (748466)	8/31/2006 9:50:50 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Re: revised Second-Quarter GDP number. Yep.... I know. (Don't expect that number to roll forward, though... given the popping of the housing bubble, and the effect it will have on consumption.) 40% odds of recession in 2007 now, and climbing.... And still, we've got this to deal with: "...the national debt, which is up $65 billion in the first 19 days of this month! That's $3.4 billion per day! More than $10 for every man, woman and child in America, per freaking day! So, a family of four (Mogambo, wife, and two hateful, juvenile-delinquent children) is going to have to pay off a government debt that is growing by another $40 a day, every day." "And since only about a quarter of the nation's men, women and children pay taxes, then the additional debt piled onto a tax-paying family of four is $160 per day!"