Monday, April 23, 2012 11:42:45 AM
More fuzzy math from the right. Little Bush would be way over 300mph if the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were counted in the spending during his tenure.
Sunday, April 22, 2012 3:30:45 PM
The US Department of Defense has budgeted to spend $107bn in 2012 alone in Afghanistan alone (never mind the other stuff). Ron Paul may be a little left field to be taken seriously enough to ever have a realistic chance of election, but his suggestion of simply pulling out of everywhere and concentrating on being peaceful instead of aggressive has some merit - $107bn is some serious cash in anyone's world, that`s more than the entire transportation budget, and 9 times what the budget is for tertiary education in the US.
The real problem is that a lot of this debt is owned by China. They might wanna call it in one day, just because they can. Or maybe to write it off, say, in exchange for Taiwan...
Sunday, April 22, 2012 2:15:37 PM
I think Obama has pushed beyond the point of no return. We're now Greece, only there`s nobody else that`s big enough to bail us out.
Sunday, April 22, 2012 1:39:12 PM
Gotta love how americans want to get rid of taxes. WOnder if they realise that the country would become a slum pretty much overnight.