| Block Captain Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Adirondack Park, NY Gender:  Posts: 448 Level up: 92%, 12 Points needed | | Quote: |
When did America become a Nation of Frightened Wimps?
| Jan. 20, 2001; inauguration day; the electoral tragedy that swept the Bushies into power. Quote: |
"... $3 $Trillion $dollars in new debt. And the one thing you can say about George Bush and this economy is, we'll be forever in your debt." Rahm Emanuel (D-IL)
| $Trillions more in debt.
Perhaps hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead or displaced.
Thousands of U.S. troops dead.
10's of thousands of U.S. troops severely wounded (the cost of caring for them may exceed a $half $tril).
And we are substantially less safe, by quantification of the global proliferation of terrorists, and terrorism. Quote:
"... a tight grip is actually a sign of a weak hand."
President William Jefferson Clinton 99/04/07 C-SPAN
| "Work is the curse of the drinking classes." Oscar Wilde |