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Source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...pending17.html

Want to know why this is important? The national debt, since 2001, has gone up nearly $3 trillian, and congress just raised the debt limit, a cap of how much debt we can go into, by ~$700 billion.

Congress raised the limit on the government's credit card to nearly $9 trillion Thursday, and lawmakers immediately went on a charge-it spree. The House approved, 348-71, $92 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for relief along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast. Most of the House package, nearly $68 billion, would pay for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The legislation would push total war costs since Sept. 11, 2001, to nearly $400 billion. Before the Iraq invasion in 2003, Bush administration officials predicted costs related to the Iraq war would total less than $100 billion. The Senate, meanwhile, adopted a $2.8 trillion budget blueprint that anticipates deficits of more than $350 billion for this year and next. The spending blueprint, approved 51-49, little resembles President Bush's proposal last month for the budget year that begins Oct. 1. To the disappointment of budget hawks, the Senate's measure would break Bush's proposed caps on spending for programs such as education, low-income heating subsidies and health research. All told, senators endorsed more than $16 billion in increases above Bush's proposed $873 billion cap on spending appropriated by Congress each year. Vice President Dick Cheney was on hand for a possible tie-breaking vote, but that proved unnecessary. Senators earlier voted 52-48 to send Bush a measure that would allow the government to borrow an additional $781 billion and prevent a first-ever default on Treasury notes. As a result, the government could pay for the war in Iraq without raising taxes or cutting domestic programs. The statutory debt limit has risen by more than $3 trillion since Bush took office.

Wow, that is bullshit. They can do whatever they want and get a way with it. This just shows how much Bush has damaged America.

I really don't feel like going on a rant, so that is all.

Buy guns while you still can children, without t hem you cannot defend yourself against an unjust government

What would you recommend? My dad's got two shotguns, and I've got an air-rifle, all in a gun cabinet. But we've got a few spaces left. The next best buy would be...?

Whatever happened to Bush pledging to give however much in aid to Make Poverty History, at that G8 summit?

Jesus H. Christ. Bush pisses me off almost every fucking day. How in the HELL did this man get to be the most powerful person in the USA for 8 years? Oh yeah, his last name is Bush.

FUCK YOU AMERICA.

Quote from an online show I listen to: "You can practically throw a rock and hit something that he's (Bush) has fucked up".

Id suggest ak47's cheap reliable, abundant ammunition.

He's the reason why the electoral college was instituted. Little son of a bitch slipped by because of partisan politics. I -really- hope that we get some new blood into office. I dont care who it is besides Republicans. Their connivery is getting old :/.

What about the m16's?

I still prefer the Shotgun.

YOu can't go wrong with a hundred odd pellets firing off in a general direction, with a lot of power...twice.