Saturday, October 14, 2006

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Oh. My. God.

http://www.adn.com/front/story/8286643p-8181850c.html

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/061009/481/7eb4704fdb3e425aa882e15fb15d6a51


Holy flying muskrats. That's my aunt Tammy.


http://www.ktva.com/alaska/ci_4465939

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/101006/sta_20061010008.shtml

http://www.ktva.com/topstory/ci_4465773

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Fiscal Irresponsibility

Deeper and Deeper

For the first time during President Bush’s tenure, the government’s interest bill is expected to rise in 2006, from $184 billion in 2005 to $220 billion this year, up nearly 20 percent. That increase — $36 billion — makes interest the fastest-growing component of federal spending, and continued brisk growth is likely. According to projections by Congress’s budget office, the interest bill will grow to $249 billion in 2007, and $270 billion in 2008.

All of that is money the government won’t have available to spend on other needs and priorities. And much of it won’t even be recycled back into the United States economy. That’s because borrowing from foreign countries has exploded during the Bush years. In 2005, the government paid about $77 billion in interest to foreign creditors in China, Japan and elsewhere.


"It means that a growing share of America’s future collective income will flow abroad, leading to a lower standard of living in the United States than would otherwise have been achieved."


The Republican Party is not the party of fiscal responsibility.