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Justice Is Comin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 03:54 PM
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Want to see a visual that is MIND BLOWING ?
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tvfipp Donating Member (51 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 03:55 PM
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1. where's my barf bag? OMG!
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 03:57 PM
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4. Barfing For Truth
I like it
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 03:56 PM
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2. OMFG
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stop the bleeding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 03:57 PM
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3. $8,271,677,819,413.19 - I thought you were gonna pay the bill this
time.


8 trillion dollars!!!, sorry I just hear Dr. Evil in the background saying that
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reichstag911 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 03:58 PM
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5. I got it last time! n/t
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 03:58 PM
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6. They can just borrow more to pay off that debt
After all isn't that what they have been doing?
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 03:59 PM
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7. So who gets to pay the bill? Certainly not Bush's rich asshole friends.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:00 PM
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8. Wow! That really brings it home.
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Justice Is Comin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:02 PM
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9. Wonder if we can pin this
to the top of freeperville website and make them look at it spin.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:10 PM
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10. What do I get for my
$27,724.79?

Bloody hands?
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:14 PM
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11. 5,404 years
Edited on Thu Mar-16-06 04:18 PM by TahitiNut
That's how long it'd take to pay off the Debt if the entire U.S. labor force worked full-time at today's Federal minimum wage, with 100% of that wage applied to the debt, not counting interest or inflation and with no deductions for Social Security, Medicare, or anything else.

5,404 years

100% of the U.S. labor force


For those interested, it's 803,075,933 man-years of labor at minimum wage rates.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 10:50 PM
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15. Mind blowing...
And they want MORE jobs ouitsourced or eliminated?
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BeyondThePale Donating Member (895 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:37 PM
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12. Damn Clinton's penis for getting us into this mess!!!
SARCASM!
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:55 PM
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13. An amazing illustration of how bad the situation is. Thanks.
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bear425 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 10:34 PM
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14. hit the refresh button a few times for more mind blowing...
sickening.
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Lifelong Protester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 10:52 PM
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16. That's a major WOWSER
Is that debt clock, the one that went DARK during the Clinton years, has that been jumpstarted again? Or has it blown a fuse?? (I think this was in NYC, someone help me out here)
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 10:59 PM
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17. it's in midtown manhattan. i walk pass it on my way to work.
i could tell you the exact location if i bothered to pay attention to where i was when walking to work....
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 12:47 AM
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18. At $30K per person, we're looking like Argentina more and more
And the only way out of the mess is a free falling dollar. Maybe when the Iran 'petro-euro' bourse opens March 20th things will finally collapse and the manufacturing jobs will stay and/or start to come back here, with a currency worth spit.

Clinton didn't do this crap, this is all BushCo, thank you very much.

A strong dollar was supposed to be a Republican talking point. It is now, everyone's gossipping about it !
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Catrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 01:00 AM
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19. What was the debt when Clinton left office? n/t
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ArbustoBuster Donating Member (956 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 12:28 PM
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20. According to the Department of the Treasury...
The US debt was $5,674,178,209,886.86 on 09/29/2000 and $5,807,463,412,200.06 on 09/28/2001. (Information from http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpdodt.htm) This means that the debt when Bill Clinton left office in January of 2001 was probably about 5.7 trillion dollars. The same site states that the debt as of Wednesday the fifteenth of March (two days ago) was $8,270,134,498,375.29.
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Catrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:21 PM
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21. Thanks for the information ArbustoBuster ~
So Bush has increased the debt by over 3 trillion dollars! The War doesn't account for all of that, although I did read somewhere that it would account for one trillion dollars ~ I'm not very good at economics, but where did this money go? And shouldn't there be an accounting of it somewhere?

Trillions, and he keeps cutting programs, like the little food program for seniors ~ it's simply mind-boggling!
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Justice Is Comin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:51 PM
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23. It's lost on the
revenue the millionaires would be paying if it wasn't for their tax cuts. So we have to borrow it from


AS OF JAN 2006 IN BILLIONS

Country

Japan 668.3
Mainland China 262.6
United Kingdom 244.8
Caribbean Banking Centers 97.9
OPEC 77.6
Taiwan 71.6
Korea 68.3
Germany 65.2
Canada 54.9
Hong Kong 48.3
Norway 42.9
Luxembourg 39.5
Mexico 39.4
Switzerland 36.4
Brazil 28.5
France 27.7
Singapore 27.1
Sweden 20.0
Turkey 17.5
Belgium 17.3
Italy 16.0
Thailand 13.4
India 13.1
Ireland 12.7
Netherlands 11.3
Israel 11.2
Poland 10.4
All Other 143.7

Grand Total 2187.6


And then we send it to Iraq
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Maine-ah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:44 PM
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22. check out this one too
www.costofwar.com
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