Moon, asteroids, and Mars aGO! Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Moon, asteroids, and Mars aGO!
# 4749 bygeorge@... on Jan. 9, 2004, 5:55 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
Vote mining 101 Enron style.
The U.S. president's proposed budget for 2005 would control the
rising cost of housing vouchers for the poor, require some veterans
to pay more for health care, slow the growth in spending on
biomedical research and merge or eliminate some job training and
employment programs. Total federal revenues have declined for three
consecutive years. But in those years, total federal spending has
increased more than 20 percent.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/04/politics/04BUDG.html
Who is going to pay for it?
Bush gets it from Congress. Congress, now under a monolithic deficit
and virtually pennyless, must then borrow it from the bank.
Taxpayers then, under future presidents that must deal with this
horrible monster, pay back the loan as well as all the other loans
(including the ones for the Iraq nightmare of course).
Bush is sitting next to the taxpayer and tells the restaurant
to "put it on his tab". Mr. Taxpayer is mischievously playing with
the "mindless" sign welded on his forehead.
Pay-back is Hell.