i do not know how much it could end up costing if put into effect. my guess is that it'd be more than the three co-sponsers would care to admit.
hagle is at least on paper a republican. but then again so is snow. have you heard the term rino?
you have givem me plenty to read and i congratulate you for doing your homework.
oh, i did try again to send the joke to you.
--- On Thu, 5/1/08, Kendall D. Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Kendall D. Corbett <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: S.2433 global tax on americans to give to other countries
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thursday, May 1, 2008, 12:41 PM
> Ken,
>
> On NPR this morning, I heard interviews with a State Dept
> official and a DoD
> official (unfortunately, I can't remember their names,
> or exact positions,
> although the State Department official did have
> ambassadorial rank) who both
> said that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not going
> to be won
> militarily, but through economic development. Their theory
> is that there
> are too many young men in Islamic countries that see the
> economic conditions
> as oppressive, and are joining Jihadist organizations to
> try to change those
> conditions. I also did a quick search for sources for the
> 847 billion price
> tag for the Obama-Hagel-Cantwell bill and the sources I
> found were primarily
> blogs. It's also ineresting to note that Chuck Hagel
> from Nebraska is a
> Republican.
>
> The only source that I recognized as a credible news source
> was the National
> Ledger:
>
> http://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=22&num=18845
>
> Didn't see anything from the Washington Post, LA Times,
> NY Times, or
> actually even Fox that reported this figure. We might all
> debate the
> credibility of those news organizations, even if I had
> found citations from
> them.
>
> You also mentioned that you can't imagine a president
> proposing legislation
> that he didn't intend to fund:
>
> "WOULD YOU PLAN FOR SOMETHING THAT YOU DO NOT INTEND
> TO EXECTE."
>
> If that's the case, what about George HW Bush and the
> ADA? I seem to
> remember it being referred to as an "unfunded
> mandate."
>
> As far as there not being enough money in the budget for
> Obama's program,
> it's also interesting to note that the $847 billion
>
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