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To: Road Walker who wrote (460565)	3/3/2009 10:34:58 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574007

The U.S. economy is in free fall, the banking system is in a state of complete collapse and Americans all across the country are downsizing their standards of living. The nation as we’ve known it is fading before our very eyes, but we’re still pouring billions of dollars into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq with missions we are still unable to define. Hear! Hear! Bernanke just testified in front of Congress that AIG, the insurance company, operated like a hedge fund and was able to do that because it was unrelegated. And now asshole judd gregg is accusing Bernanke and Obama of introducing socialism to the US. Asshole, asshole, asshole!

To: Road Walker who wrote (460565)	3/3/2009 10:37:23 AM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574007

Obama has to reduce the committment even more. His current position isn't acceptabel IMO. We’ve already paid a fearful price for these wars. In addition to the many thousands of service members who have been killed or suffered obvious disabling injuries, a study by the RAND Corporation found that some 300,000 are currently suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or depression, and that 320,000 have most likely experienced a traumatic brain injury. Time magazine has reported that “for the first time in history, a sizable and growing number of U.S. combat troops are taking daily doses of antidepressants to calm nerves strained by repeated and lengthy tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.” Suicides among soldiers rose in 2008 for the fourth consecutive year, largely because of the stress of combat deployments. It’s believed that 128 soldiers took their own lives last year. Much of the country can work itself up to a high pitch of outrage because a banker or an automobile executive flies on a private jet. But we’ll send young men and women by the thousands off to repeated excursions through the hell of combat — three tours, four tours or more — without raising so much as a peep of protest.