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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (172148)	9/16/2011 6:21:04 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542160

We are far apart and there is no way to bridge the difference. Here are some of my thoughts. World War II was a necessity and it was economically stimulative. The war in Iraq was different. It was not paid for. It was not budgeted for. Most of the spending can not be accounted for and the hospital bills for the thousands of severely injured and has to be taken care of for the rest of their lives have not been submitted -yet. The jobs going to China making socks, glueing shoes, assembling toys are not jobs you want American s to have. China will be getting rid of those jobs as soon as they can. We are ot going hat in hand to beg for those jobs. If the super rich, the top 1 to 2 percent paid their fair share of taxes (tax rates during Clinton era) would pay for a lot of teaching and construction jobs. The budget would not be immediately balanced but the framework would be in place and the ripple effect is tsuname like. We don't have a real debt problem. We are a wealthy nation. If the super wealthy paid their fair share we would not have a problem. We are not China and that is why our stimulus money can ot be spent efficiently and effectively. A certain amount has to be wasted building highways and bridges to nowhere. We can't get around that.