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Lol, point of whole thread is Bush spending more money then Clinton all the while demanding we have a smaller government.

You called me on the numbers, and rightly corrected me, on how much more it was. We eventually came up with an average number of about 25% more spent from Bush.

Clinton was running a surplus with his spending Bush is running a deficit.

You said that a million dollars was not a lot of money, I disagreed. Never did I say I chose not save money, I just tried to bring a little reality back to you on where someone who is "average" in income would be spending their money.

Yes playing the lottery is really a poor tax, it is also a clever marketing strategy, it lets people who are poor and middle class dream about what it would be like to be a millionare and what they would spend the money on. It suprises them at how quickly it can go and how all those high end expensive toys can absorb a million dollars like it was nothing. It makes them think that a million dollars therefore is nothing.

Its a lot and it takes a lot of hard work, inheritance, or luck to get. I am all for hard work, I work hard each and everyday and put in lots of overtime in order to get ahead and well you were offly flippant about dismissing a million dollars as if it was a pitance.

In the US I would be called a left-wing democrat (which is near to an insult as far as I understand you transantlantic guys) but nonetheless I don't care how wealthy someone can be as long as he acumulated his wealth legally and he's a nice person.

Not everybody wants to be rich and surely not everybody will be, but everyone can try to get rich - especially in the US.

So everybody who hasn't seriously tried yet in spending time, effort and dedication in this goal but is just bragging and whining - PLEASE SHUT THE F*CK UP!!!!