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.)