I agree.I don't know, Strike. And if this bailout goes through we'll never know. I'm going to wait and read what people who do nothing but sit around and study economics have to say about it before I get really depressed.
But I tell ya, between the trillion dollars we sunk into Iraq and the trillion we're going to throw into propping up the financial markets and the other three trillion that somehow got frittered away in debt spending over the last eight years, I'm going to occupy a lot of my later life apologizing to my son and daughter.
Sucks to be them.
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I see someone already made a film about this.
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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