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...only one that thinks it is sad that the greatest nation the world has ever seen could not remove one man and his two sons from power without getting 30,000 people killed and running up a tab of one trillion dollars ? Even sadder is that the administration thought that taking these three men out would completely change 2,000 years of culture. Iraq - a mistake then...
...animal rights groups. We have no lobby, and we are getting robbed because of it. We are voiceless and have been damned to irrelevance. On Monday, President Bush signed into law a bill approved by the Senate earlier this week raising the American federal debt ceiling to nearly $9 trillion. Despite chiding Senators in his first speech as President in 2001 to pay down $2 trillion in debt over ten years, this is the fourth time during his administration that the ceiling has been raised, rather than lowered, in order to avoid default. Times have changed, says the Bush administration...
...wrong course. Opinion swung more quickly this time, as the cost-benefit analysis changed. When the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) weren't found and the Saddam-9/11 connection was discredited, the sense of urgent threat receded. However generous and idealistic Americans may be, a half-a-trillion-dollar nation-building venture is a harder case to make...
...trillion Level of federal debt reached last week, causing the Bush Administration to ask Congress to raise the legal limit...
EBAY'S 180 MILLION USERS MADE $44 BILLION IN TRANSACTIONS LAST YEAR, BUT ONLY 5% OF THOSE WHO BOUGHT ALSO SOLD. WILL THIS CHANGE? There is $2,200 in unused goods sitting in the average U.S. household, which adds up to about half a trillion dollars nationwide. That's where the opportunity is. Over the last two years, more than 7,000 "drop shops" have opened around the country. These are storefronts that don't sell anything except services that help you sell your stuff. There are "personal reselling assistants" to help you get rid of the things...