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To: DMaA who wrote (267725)	9/11/2008 9:36:29 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793991

Perhaps but at least it would keep the gov't from incurring additional debt which, IMO, is the problem. We have unfunded liabilities whose present value is in the trillions. Reflect on that. It means that we have debt in the trillions for which no provisions have been made. Those trillions will grow larger as the time to pay them approaches. If we diminish this debt through the printing press, we will have inflation like we have never seen before. The gov't is the equivalent of a wage earner who makes $20K a year but has a $2 million ARM mortgage about to re-set, negative equity in his home, $100k in credit card debt, five kids, a country club membership, and a leased Mercedes. In other words, a train wreck in the making.

To: DMaA who wrote (267725)	9/11/2008 11:07:34 AM
From: Bill	Respond to of 793991

Poll: Concerns about terrorist attacks at lowest level since 9/11 Poll: About 1 in 10 say terrorism is the most important issue in voting for president 30 percent said they think an attack on American soil is likely soon About half say the U.S. will find September 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden (CNN) -- Concerns about an impending terrorist strike are at the lowest point on record since the attacks of September 11, 2001, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll. Furthermore, only about one in 10 Americans says terrorism is the most important issue in deciding their vote for president, the poll found. Seven years after the attacks of September 11, just 30 percent of Americans said they think an attack on American soil is likely over the next several weeks, down 11 points since this time last year and down 30 points since the first anniversary of September 11. Only 14 percent of Americans say an impending terrorist attack is likely in their community. And Americans do appear to be more confident that Osama bin Laden will eventually be captured or killed: Just about half say the U.S. will ultimately find the September 11 mastermind, up 7 points from this time last year. But in frustrating news for the White House, Americans appear to give little credit to President Bush for the lack of a terrorist strike over the last seven years: Only 37 percent believe that the president and his policies are the chief reason there has not been a strike on U.S. soil. Overall, he has a 28 percent approval rating, tying his all-time low in CNN/ORC polling. Watch how the Pentagon is memorializing 9/11 » Opinions on the war in Iraq, on the other hand, have changed slightly, with a slight majority (52 percent) now saying that the war is an essential part of the war on terrorism. That represents a shift from 2006, when a majority of Americans said the war in Iraq was a distraction. Support for the Iraq war is also up slightly over the past six months, from 30 percent in June to 37 percent now. But as Americans increasingly approve of the war, it becomes less of an important issue in their choice for president: Now, only 13 percent of registered voters said it was most important to their vote, compared with the 56 percent who named the country's economic woes as their chief concern. Just over 60 percent of Americans continue to oppose the conflict, however. Two-thirds want the next president to remove most U.S. troops from Iraq within a few months of taking office, numbers that appear to put Republican presidential candidate John McCain on the opposite side of most voters on that issue. "The good news for John McCain is that most Americans think he would be better at handling terrorism than [Barack] Obama," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said. "The bad news is that terrorism seems to matter most to the people McCain already has squarely in his camp: Republicans. Just over 20 percent of Republicans say that terrorism is their number one issue; for Democrats and independents, that's in single digits." cnn.com