Remember when the US was a rich country?


	Remember when the US was a rich country?

kinokonoko

9-14-2007 9:33 AM

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clinton, econonomy, pre-9-11, budget surplus

kinokonoko says:

Ah the good old days before the US Treasury got plundered by Haliburton and the oil corporations to fund an illegal war. Now we pay $12 billion a MONTH to pay for the Iraq war.

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9-14-2007 10:33 AM

AcesLucky

When the people of our country mattered...
instead of just the rich.

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