Reagan - January 1981 - Federal deficit was $79 billion and the debt was $905.5 billion, or 34 % of the GDP. By 1988, the deficit was $152.5 billion and the debt was $2.6 trillion, or 54 % of the GDP. When Bush Sr. was leaving office in 1992, the deficit was $255.1 billion and a debt of $4.1 trillion, or 67 % of the GDP. God, I love Alan Colmes.

Diplomacy won't work anywhere unless we have the support of the world and our citizens, which we clearly don't (for Iraq).

No shit. :rolleyes:

No, it's partisan. This common sense you refer to is your opinion. Not everyone agrees with it, trust me.

Because America would've supported going into North Korea over Iraq. Kim Jong made the news even before 9/11. I had never seen Saddam make prime time until Bush said he had WMDs, which was a lie. A war cannot be won without public support.

Do you really want to talk about Bush's knowledge?

He entered Yale in 1964 with a SAT of 1206 (Verbal 566, Math 640), 200 points below Yale's average freshman in 1970.

He graduated Yale in 1968 with a 2.35 GPA

In the fall of 1970, he was rejected from admission at University of Texas Law School.

In 1973, he applied to Harvard Business School with a 2.35 GPA. 1973 admission statistics are unavailable, but for an incomplete comparison: today's Harvard students average a GPA of 3.5 - no students were accepted with a GPA lower than 2.6.

You're the last person on here who can talk about refuting comments.

That's great, but I never blamed Bush. I just said he hasn't made as many efforts to try and make peace in Israel like Clinton did.

Ho Chi Minh. I don't think you can consider Hitler or Mussolini parts of communism either. Both loathed communism.

Amen. That's why I said the government should make a committee to decide who deserves to get welfare and who doesn't really need/deserve it.

http://www.thegodfathertrilogy.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=6;t=005413

The Medicare/Medicaid problem can be blamed solely on Bush. Social Security needs to be a tad edited, but doesn't need to be reformed like Bush wants it to be. Make a committee to monitor welfare is the only way to make sure that the people who need it get it and the people who don't need it don't.

They shouldn't be put in prison for life.

Small business is 100 workers or less. Big business is 1000 workers or more.

50 %

If we're talking about someone IN China getting an American job with payments that are 25 % of what an American would make, what lower class would I be talking about?

And those that are on unemployment are also eligible to welfare. Do you think a guy trying to support his wife and 4 kids on just unemployment will make it?

Bush has the Senate and House. All the power is in his hands.

Wow, your insults are growing tiresome. Enough is enough.

And government revenue needs to be increased. This economy is flourishing right now, according to you. I think we can afford a couple months of taxes.

You answered your own question. No one is going to be sent to prison for life for assault with a deadly weapon. It might even be better to keep him out of prison, but have him in some sort of counseling jail. There he will be off the streets and able to be rehabiliated. Also, you said that this guy who shot the girl is coming out of prison and then he shoots her. Prison doesn't do anything. It just makes a person worse.

Yes, sorry my opinion is different. :rolleyes:

The genocide in Iraq doesn't even compare to that of which has been happening in Sudan for the last 21 years. For the second time, I don't have history class.

Owned.

Last I checked, two women or two men getting married didn't affect someone else's life. It isn't hazardous to anyone else's health. It's their CHOICE, not yours.

For the 3rd time, I don't have history.

No, I didn't.

We're learning about the Axum, Egyptian, and Kush empires. I don't see what that or he has to do with American Cultures. I haven't had that since last year.

Peace begins December 31st. -Pat

It will get easier for you, DJ. -Pat