little_tippler

I made a thread yesterday, admittedly I was a bit hard on Bush but I felt I needed to express my views on him. I was disappointed with the election result, if not for America, for the world. I am European, and of course you will tell me that I am just another outsider pressuring America. I still don't see why my thread got erased. I hope this one won't.

I'd just like to put out some interesting info on American National Debt, that has risen in the past years to being the country with the greatest debt in the world:

The day after he won, Bush decided it's necessary to raise the American Debt Ceiling:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...h/debt_ceiling

Some facts on the amount that is already owed (USA is the last entry):

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/.../2187rank.html

How much is being spent daily:

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/


Hope that helps.

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918