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How about we make alternative energy a national priority, save about a trillion a year in importing oil and start being an exporter to the tune of 2 trillion. The multiplication of the tax revenue/investment/jobs would multiply the amount of this number a few times over spread across two decades. This won’t happen for the same reason financial discipline won’t happen in Washington and that is because our leaders have become extreordinarily self-centered as people, just as the voters have. Kennedy had it right, “ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country”. Any house divided itself will fall. Greed is causing our country to become divided.

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"The federal government’s fiscal exposures now total over $50 trillion, representing close to four times the gross domestic product (GDP) in fiscal year 2006 and up from about $20 trillion, or two times GDP in 2000....We must remember that failure to take action now ultimately means that politicians and voters will continue to cash checks today our children and grandchildren will be forced to pay for tomorrow....We must remember that failure to take action now ultimately means that politicians and voters will continue to cash checks today our children and grandchildren will be forced to pay for tomorrow."

msg. true, but so 'old hat'; jus not a 'sexy' news item...Pres. Bush and pubbie part of Congress need a scolding.