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

To: longnshort who wrote (765783)	10/8/2007 1:15:59 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"My kids are paying for FDR's war" Actually, no. (WW II debt has been eliminated by now... all bonds paid off. The 90% top income tax bracket during the war and later years might have had something to do with that. That and the surging post-war economy and growing population.) "... and their kids and grand kids will be paying for LBJ's 2 wars, one of which is still adding to the debt." And, ain't that a damn dirty shame! (PLS don't forget to include the Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush federal deficits into that list of shame though --- especially the Bushs, who have more then doubled the entire national debt from left from ALL PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS, from more then 200 years of American history.) PS - LBJ actually left extremely little national debt from his four years (believe he ran a modest deficit his final year only). After all: he mostly PAID for what he spent in the Vietnam War with his 10% income tax surcharge. PPS --- uncontrolled federal deficits DO MATTER. (Despite con jobs whatever loony, lying fools may try to sucker the public with....)