Sky Dancer
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You think? About 20% of the people of Greece have jobs these days, the country is bankrupt, and is surviving only by huge infusions of 'free' money from its neighbors and us. It will probably not see prosperity again for a very long time if ever. Why is that? Because they have implemented the very policies that our present government seems to be gung ho to emulate.
The Founders wanted government to secure our rights and then get out of our way, allow us to form whatever society we wished to have and live our lives unimpeded by government authority. In the first century, it worked and the USA enjoyed the most freedoms and the most rapidly growing economy the world has ever known. Beginning with the first Roosevelt administration and gradually escalating since that time, however, we have seen erosion of that principle. Our current administration seems to intend to dismantle what is left of it.
Far reaching? If the frog doesn't jump out of the pot when the water starts heating up, it will be boiled.
We could get out of Iraq for one thing. That would save a ton of money.
COSTOFWAR.COM - The Cost of War
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Ya... Obama promised to do that. Another broken promise that must piss off you liberals. Where are all of your anti-war protests? Could it possibly be that you don't really mind war that much, as long as your guy is running it?
That's a stereotype of liberals. I'm a liberal and I mind the war. Always have. I was against us going into Iraq from the beginning.
President Obama hasn't done enough to get us out of Iraq. He ran on that platform and his response has been disappointing to me.
Our economy is run on warfare. Just look at how much of our GNP is weapons. The US is the top supplier of weapons. Then we're so shocked when they use our weapons against us.
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