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Basic math
I wrote this as a comment over at the Washington Post on an article about the revelation that top political appointees in the Bush Justice Department forced career attorneys to deliberately bungle the case and change their request for penalties from $130 billion to $10 billion...
Let me see if I can get my head around the math of this thing.
$130,000,000,000.00 minus $10,000,000,000.00 equals A ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY BILLION DOLLAR GIVEAWAY by George W. Bush and his flunkies to their pals and political contributors in the tobacco industry.
What could we have bought with that $120,000,000,000.00?
Body and humvee armor for our troops. Health care for the millions of Americans who were deliberately poisoned by the tobacco industry. Decent health care and housing for our wounded and maimed veterans, many of whose families are now dependent on FOOD STAMPS. Improvements for the schools in America's poor neighborhoods. A major crash project of alternative energy development, to reduce or eliminate our dependence on foreign oil. Effective programs to reduce carbon emissions, so our grandchildren won't have to live in a ruined world. A big head start on a cure for heart disease and cancer.
Hey, remind me - what was so bad about those "tax and spend" liberals again?
Let me see if I can get my head around the math of this thing.
$130,000,000,000.00 minus $10,000,000,000.00 equals A ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY BILLION DOLLAR GIVEAWAY by George W. Bush and his flunkies to their pals and political contributors in the tobacco industry.
What could we have bought with that $120,000,000,000.00?
Body and humvee armor for our troops. Health care for the millions of Americans who were deliberately poisoned by the tobacco industry. Decent health care and housing for our wounded and maimed veterans, many of whose families are now dependent on FOOD STAMPS. Improvements for the schools in America's poor neighborhoods. A major crash project of alternative energy development, to reduce or eliminate our dependence on foreign oil. Effective programs to reduce carbon emissions, so our grandchildren won't have to live in a ruined world. A big head start on a cure for heart disease and cancer.
Hey, remind me - what was so bad about those "tax and spend" liberals again?