in reply to The State of the Union

The dollar amount of the national debt is not important. What's important is its percent of GDP. As long as GDP grows as fast or faster on a percentage basis than the national debt, the US is still doing fine regardless of its spending. Not that we couldn't use cuts in the budget here and there.

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Re^2: The State of the Union
by hostyle (Scribe) on Nov 05, 2004 at 10:17 UTC
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Re^2: The State of the Union
by radiantmatrix (Parson) on Nov 05, 2004 at 17:26 UTC

    Note that my poem expresses that while my share of the debt is high, AND we're at war, AND we essentially have no allies, the future looks bleak. Solve even one of those problems, and the future becomes encouraging.

    Of course, the more we could solve, the better, IMO; but solving even one would be positive progress. Thus, I personally add: 

    until ($solved) {
   $self{gripe}--;
   $self{work}++;
}

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