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"CRAP" - Plants at Wal-Mart
Can one go to any newsgroup that doesn't have this "OFF TOPIC" crap?
gregpresley wrote: The only Republican economic principles of which I'm aware involve upping military spending by huge percentages while simultaneously lowering taxes. If they can manufacture a supposed threat to the US during their terms, they are quick to seize upon it as an excuse to increase military spending by that much more. When the resultant ballooning deficits hit home, the next Republican mantra is "cut discretionary spending". Which means, welfare, medicaid, the National Instititutes of Health and Science, the Center for Disease Control, the Environmental Protection Agency, PBS, the National Endowment for the Arts, and of course the agencies that inspect meat and agricultural goods. And if it can be done in the dead of night, they also cut Medicare payments and look for ways to make social security less solvent. The last time the General Accounting Office did an audit of the military, they discovered that 40% of the military budget could not be accounted for - no receipts, no nothin'. That's in the neighborhood of $150 billion dollars a year unaccounted for. Trimming THAT cash cow would go a long way toward restoring solvency to our Federal Government, but it ain't never gonna happen during a Republican administration, with all that that party "owes" to the military industrial establishment which pays huge sums every four years to buy the candidates that protect it. Yeah, Republican economic principles - that IS a laugh.......... "Ann" wrote in message ... "B & J" expounded: What I remember best is eight straight years of prosperity with no war and environmental protection. Could that possibly happen again? Sure. After 8 straight years of Republican economic guidance ;- -- Ann, Gardening in zone 6a Just south of Boston, MA ******************************** |
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