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Thanks, Geri, for posting the link to Marcy Kaptur's take-down of the latest Bushevik money scam. Here's a link to the transcript of her speech:<div><br></div><div><div><b>Real reform now, or nothing.</b></div></div><div><<a href="http://www.kaptur.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=289&Itemid=1">http://www.kaptur.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=289&Itemid=1</a>><br><div><br></div><div>Adding to Mike's comparison of the bail-out to the cost of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -</div><div><br></div><div>On September 3, 2001, Kelly O'Meara reported:<div><br></div><div><div><i>The Defense Department cannot account for <b>$1.1 trillion</b> that seems to have vanished within the tangled system of financial accounting put in place by private contractors.</i></div></div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_/ai_78127727">http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_/ai_78127727</a></div><div><br></div><div>On September 10, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld guessed the DoD had lost track of more than twice that:</div><div><br></div><div><i>According to some estimates, we cannot track <b>$2.3 trillion</b> in transactions.</i></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/speech.aspx?speechid=430">http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/speech.aspx?speechid=430</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>(All this and we could provide <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">health care for everyone in the country</span> for a mere $350 billion.)</div><div><a href="http://www.pnhp.org/facts/single_payer_resources.php">http://www.pnhp.org/facts/single_payer_resources.php</a></div><div><br></div><div>Hal</div><div><br></div></div><div><div>On Sep 25, 2008, at 3:29 PM, Mike Kirk wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">The sad thing is, the Iraq war will cost taxpayers 3 to 4 times the cost of this bailout, yet nobody is that concerned.</td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br></div><div>right - Nobel laureate estimates wars' cost at more than $3 trillion</div><div><p><a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/100/story/28891.html">http://www.mcclatchydc.com/100/story/28891.html</a></p></div><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">-Mike<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 9/25/08, Geri Perry <i><<a href="mailto:geri@thetwofacesofmoney.com">geri@thetwofacesofmoney.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Geri Perry <<a href="mailto:geri@thetwofacesofmoney.com">geri@thetwofacesofmoney.com</a>><br>Subject: [CitizensTruth] the greatest crime ever perpetrated . . .<br>To: "Citizens Truth" <<a href="mailto:citizenstruth@six.pairlist.net">citizenstruth@six.pairlist.net</a>><br>Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008, 12:16 PM<br><br><pre>Marcy Kaptur, people's heroine: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S27yitK32ds">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S27yitK32ds</a></pre></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>