So what is the running price tag on Iraq these days? We're going to continue to fund that war and also throw money out the Treasury back door for tax rebates? Um, where is the income to support all this? Have Europe and Japan finally wised up and started purchasing our automobiles?

Brian Carlton for President

I think it's about $2B per week now...........a veritable bargain compared to a couple of years ago............

Sure, fund the war and give back the surplus to the constituents. No surplus, you say? No problem..........we'll just borrow the money, give it to the constituents, and nobody will ever know...........

Nope..........nobody has wised up...........yet.

Well, I wouldn't last five minutes in that job. The expenditures would be immediately slashed to match the revenues.........making a lot of folks quite upset.

GII's brother was in on the first savings and loan scandal and the second was engineered. Each group that gets in power exploits whatever they can, and they could, simple. Expect no less in the future.

Tax rebate: free firewood for the well connected, a free matchstick for the rest.

I don't know about the Darwin award.........but, he sure wins the mileage award........

From the early 17th century to the early 19th century England pretty much lived in deficit spending due to it's own internal conflicts and more especially, it's wars with France and Spain. France and Spain also ran-up deficit spending, though not so much as England nor as prolonged. Even so, both France and Spain collapsed in economic ruin, cultural stagnation and final military defeat at the hands of the English (mainly). After the defat of Spain and France, England, having guaranteed at her own expense, freedom of the seas, became the unchallenged dominant society of the 18th century.

B