Wednesday, March 15, 2006

$43,000,000,000,000

A few notes from Kos...

Word on the street is that Katherine Harris will be making a big campaign announcement on Hannity tonight (or maybe she'll just be hoisting her boobs around again).

Update: She's staying in and using an inheritance to finance her campaign.

Another state has fallen in the face of the fits thrown by fundies. This time it's Washington giving pharmacists permission to discriminate against customers based on their religious beliefs. I really like this suggestion:
I recommend a guerilla campaign of vegans infiltrating supermarkets nationwide and refusing to ring up slabs of Midwestern beef because it offends their tender sensibilities.
And here's a shocking figure from David Walker, the head of the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office:
The federal government's obligations, current liabilities, and unfunded fiscal commitments are over $43 trillion and rising. . . . Yes, that's trillions with 12 zeros rather than billions with nine zeros.
That's $43,000,000,000,000.

Want to know what your portion amounts to? Well, how much you got?!?

No, I'm serious:
The estimated net worth of American families is slightly over $47 trillion, and nearly all of it---90 percent---would be needed to cover government's current obligations.
So, figure out 90% of your net worth, and that's how much you, personally, owe the Chinese (and whoever else has been buying all our debt) because of Bankrupt Bush.

This admistration must be stopped. We maybe can't get rid of Dubya at the moment, but we can take away his rubber-stamp Congress in this year's elections. We can't afford three more years of irresponsible republican spending and tax cuts for millionaires.

1 comment:

fletch said...

I wonder if Wamp is vulnerable this year. I don't think Jenkins or Duncan up this way are worried about much. At least Duncan had enough sense to vote against the Iraq war. It's kind of frustrating living in a place where nothing seems to matter. Sorry for the negative vibes, but like you said, we can't afford these guys any longer yet it seems like such an impossible hurdle to make changes locally.