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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 06:37 PM
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Hey, remember when the oil in Iraq was going to pay for all this fun?
$300Billion and counting

And...

a 500 million dollar adjustment in Medicaid

Proposed 2 trillion dollar SS plan

MoneyMoneyMoneyMoneyMoneyMoneyMoneyMoneyMoneyMoneyMoneyMoneyMoney
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merwin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 06:41 PM
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1. Think about how long you could keep Social Security around with
two trillion dollars. Why spend 2 trillion to change it? If you're going to blow that much cash, might as well just dump it directly into social security. That would make it last for a few hundred more years (under a democratic president), or at least 10 years under GW Bush.
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 06:50 PM
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4. Like watching a political shopping addict sideshow
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 06:45 PM
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2. The pnac geniuses estimated 2 billion to "do" Iraq
This was the wolfowitz & rumsfeld prognostication. However, they would have said anything to get the war ball rolling
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 06:48 PM
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3. Amazing isn't it. Everyday I just shake my head
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 06:51 PM
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5. This is exactly why we're facing so many
distractions, so people don't get to counting all those zeros on the end of that number, never mind the body count.
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 06:59 PM
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6. Got that right. Its getting ridiculously expensive to live in the US
And to think it hasn't even hit most of us yet.
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pretzel4gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 07:23 PM
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7. anyone see mr powell?
colin that is, couple years ago on sunday 'meet the mediawhores' with tim russert? ...this was before the goofball 'war' actually was going...powell mentioned that iraq's oil revenues of '$22 billion/year' would be needed to pay for the expenses...haha. the iraqis don't want anyone taking the oil and the oil revs haven't materialized...lol...it's truly a fox guarding the henhouse situ in iraq as far as the oil is concerned, even the american boys over there probably don't give a damn if someone blows up the oil wells and pipelines etc...
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 07:33 PM
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8. I'm sure they don't. Afterall, we're paying for all of it / debts forgiven
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