Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] what majority wants Bush?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Bryan Venable wrote:

> Wasn't sure where to place this in the conversation, but I thought these 
> links were interesting:
>
> http://students.cs.tamu.edu/blevinsa/kerry/cost_of_war.gif

That's kinda like the cookie concept from Ben Cohen.  Saved money can be 
spent elsewhere.  I think they have some good arguments.  On the other 
hand, I'm not sure that their numbers are right.  I haven't heard $144 
billion for Iraq before.


> http://www.nypress.com/17/31/news&columns/WilliamBryk.cfm

>From the article:

   "Forty years ago, when Lyndon Johnson believed the United States could
   afford both Great Society and the Vietnam War, conservatives attacked
   his fiscal policies as extravagant and reckless. Ten years ago, the
   Republican Party regained control of Congress with the Contract with
   America, which included a balanced-budget amendment to restore fiscal
   responsibility. But today, thanks to tax cuts and massively increased
   military spending, the Bush administration has transformed, according to
   the Congressional Budget Office, a ten-year projected surplus of $5.6
   trillion to a deficit of $4.4 trillion: a turnaround of $10 trillion in
   roughly 32 months."

Yes, it is amazingly anti-conservative to spend money at that rate, isn't 
it?  And Bush/Cheney, as I recently pointed out, are ridiculing Kerry for 
his votes against big spending bills!

Mike
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