<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for The bailout, the war, and renewable energy]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Earl Killian http://www.grist.org/article/the-cost-of-lost-opportunities/ Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:36:38 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/the-cost-of-lost-opportunities/1 US debt increased by 5 trillion 2001-08

If you go to the US Treasury website and ask for the history of US debt, it looks like it has gone up some 4.4 trillion. Add on the 0.7 trillion Paulson Cash for Trash plan and we're at a 5.1 trillion increase.  That's a lot more than 1.3 trillion used in this post.

]]> US debt increased by 5 trillion 2001-08

If you go to the US Treasury website and ask for the history of US debt, it looks like it has gone up some 4.4 trillion. Add on the 0.7 trillion Paulson Cash for Trash plan and we're at a 5.1 trillion increase.  That's a lot more than 1.3 trillion used in this post.

]]> Comment #2 by stevenearlsalmony http://www.grist.org/article/the-cost-of-lost-opportunities/ Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:42:20 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/the-cost-of-lost-opportunities/2 Even worse than the financial meltdown.....

...........is the "fool's errand" in Iraq.

"The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people, and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. It is in the nature of things that the progress of reason is slow and no one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies. One can encourage freedom, never create it by an invading force."
  ~ Maximilien Robespierre, 1792

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001
http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/index.php



]]> Even worse than the financial meltdown.....

...........is the "fool's errand" in Iraq.

"The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people, and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. It is in the nature of things that the progress of reason is slow and no one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies. One can encourage freedom, never create it by an invading force."
  ~ Maximilien Robespierre, 1792

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001
http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/index.php



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