On May 4, 3:17*am, "Clave" wrote:
"D. Peter Maus" wrote in ...





On 5/3/10 23:17 , bpnjensen wrote:
On May 3, 8:48 pm, "D. Peter *wrote:
On 5/3/10 18:57 , m II wrote:

D. Peter Maus wrote:

* * Yeah, when I pay more tax than John Kerry, it makes my blood boil,
too.

Would paying more tax than George Bush be different somehow?

* * George Bush didn't run on a platform of raising my taxes.

...nor did he run on a platform of doubling our national debt.

* You mean the way Obama trebled it in less than 5 months?

That didn't happen.

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JIm, I assume you refer to the *debt*, which is correct; it did not
treble or any other whole number multiple . Peter's assertion about
the annual *deficit*, however, is closer to the mark...Obama, with the
help of most of Congress, passed increases for a number of reasons,
for reasons that are well within anybody's memory. However, this
almost certainly would *not* have happened if we had not been in a
(hpefully) short-term economic crisis.

Bruce