In five years each citizen's share of the debt has climbed $10,000

[salin]

After the war started, I checked the national debt clock ( http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ ) and based on the national debt - the debt per person in the US was about $20,000. I checked tonight - and the debt per every individual in the US (per the accumulated national debt) is 30,614.48. The spending and low tax for the very wealthy and corporations policies of the Bush administration cost us (in debt that we or our children, or their children) is increasing at about a rate of $2,000 a year.

*This is reality* - and a couple of decades ago this was a huge campaign issue (the idea of pushing HUGE debt on to children and grandchildren) - it is time to re-invoke that response. Is it really worth giving tens of thousands in tax breaks to the very wealthy (and hundreds of thousands to millions to corporations which have NOT generated new high paying jobs to the country (that is: there has been no trickle down effect) at a cost of $2,000 a year?

Has giving hundreds of tens of thousands of dollars, each year, to multimillionaires (in tax cuts) which have not stimulated the economy, been worth the cost of $10,000 ($2,000 a year for five years)? When John McCain says "no new taxes" - he means no reversal of the Bush tax policy - and we will keep owing an increase of 2K a year to pay for those rich folks tax cuts. We need to ask our friends and neighbors if they agree that we should keep taking on such a debt obligation in order to continue the policies of Bush - or if as McCain suggests increase these costs by starting and fighting more wars (for one-hundred years or more.)

[rurallib]

1. Proud to know I have helped make some rich bastard richer

so he could ship our lowly jobs to China. This is the way a democracy should work, from the top down.

[salin]

3. I wish I knew how I could get that very message out to folks...

we owe more, we have fewer opportunities to earn (and often earn less - as I do), to fund Bush's war, and his tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations - tax breaks that have done nothing but expedite the outsourcing of our jobs.

[cloudythescribbler]

2. Hey -- get with the program! Kiss Up & Shit Down -- C'est la vie

[blues90]

4. I think we really need to dig out the voting records

Of all who voted for bush and supported this war and send the bill to them . I and many others had nothing to do with this mass horror . Put my tax money into something that helps instead of destroys .

[BlueJazz]

5. I've thought of the same thing. Wouldn't it be wonderful to stick....

...the whole expensive mess on the very ones that caused it ?

[Xenotime]

6. Unfucking believeable. All so they can fucking make money off people dying in wars