Our national debt

Well-meaning Republicans are going to have to answer to their children and grandchildren for approximately $30,000 debt that we are dumping on them. This includes the Jerry Fallwell branch of the ‘Religious Right’ who has voted in our ‘leaders’ who have created most of this, and, by the way, scoffed at our environmental issues.

In the last 26 years, our national debt has grown from a trillion to eight trillion, yet Bush has thrown gasoline on the fire by taking millions of taxes off his richest supporters, including our incumbent congressman from the 49th district, and shoved the resulting deb...