Debt: Our 9 trillion pound gorilla
In These Times
by Susan J. Douglas
03/25/08
Who would have thought that we might ever miss Ross Perot? Squawking at us with his graphs and pie charts about the dangers of deficit spending and the mounting national debt, Perot was especially outraged that the debt had gone from $1 trillion in 1980 to $4 trillion by 1992. He got people’s attention about mortgaging our children’s futures and won 19 percent of the vote in the 1992 presidential race, the most for a third party candidate since Teddy Roosevelt in 1912. … As we brace for the Swiftboating to come this summer, I find myself nostalgic for a Perot infomercial where he would make clear that my daughter, or my friend’s infant — all of us, as of now — each carries nearly $31,000 of this debt. And we don’t owe it only to each other...
http://tinyurl.com/24pr2j
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deficit+spending
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=national+debt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage
by Susan J. Douglas
03/25/08
Who would have thought that we might ever miss Ross Perot? Squawking at us with his graphs and pie charts about the dangers of deficit spending and the mounting national debt, Perot was especially outraged that the debt had gone from $1 trillion in 1980 to $4 trillion by 1992. He got people’s attention about mortgaging our children’s futures and won 19 percent of the vote in the 1992 presidential race, the most for a third party candidate since Teddy Roosevelt in 1912. … As we brace for the Swiftboating to come this summer, I find myself nostalgic for a Perot infomercial where he would make clear that my daughter, or my friend’s infant — all of us, as of now — each carries nearly $31,000 of this debt. And we don’t owe it only to each other...
http://tinyurl.com/24pr2j
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deficit+spending
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=national+debt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage
rudkla - 26. Mär, 11:04
