Congress Passes Energy Efficient Server Initiative

Krishna Dagli writes to mention a News.com article about a just-passed Congressional initiative. On Wednesday the House passed legislation instructing Americans to make energy efficiency a priority when purchasing computer servers. From the article: "Washington politicians voted 417-4 on Wednesday to tell American purchasing managers that it's in their 'best interests' to pay attention to energy conservation. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican, also directs the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a three-month study 'of the growth trends associated with data centers and the utilization of servers in the federal government and private sector.'" Well, at least if they're doing this they're not passing 'real' laws, right?

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[scheming daemons]

I mean every household only owes about $400,000 in government debt which I'm sure is sustainable.

That number looked really wrong to me so I looked it up: Debt = 8.4 trillion Households = 110 million Population = 295 million

So we owe $28,000 per person, and about $76,000 per household.

Whew.... Now I feel better. Knowing that my share of the debt is only $76k puts my mind at ease. Go Bush!

Isn't it interesting that....

FY 1993 (the last Poppy Bush budget) = deficit was $290 billion
FY 1994 (the first Clinton budget) = deficit was $150 billion
FY 1995 = deficit was $70 billion
FY 1996 thru 2001 (Clinton's last six budgets) = SURPLUS!
FY 2002 thru 2006 (Junior's first five budgets) = Deficits... highest around $400 billion, currently $296 billion

In the last 25 years, we've had 19 years of deficit and 6 years of surplus. The Republican administrations in that time are 17 for 17 in producing deficits. The Democratic administration during that time is 6 for 8 in producing surpluses.

Yet.. the Democrats are the "tax and spend" party that is fiscally irresponsible.

Facts are funny things... but NON-military spending, spending NOT related to Bush's "war on Tara" (using his pronunciation), is up an average of 9% per year during the current administration's term.

Under Clinton, the ENTIRE budget (military and non alike) averaged an increase of 4% per year.

The bottom line is... the Democrats are more fiscally sound at managing government than the Republicans.

There is more pork under the current regime than the last. The current President has never vetoed a single spending bill. The Republicans are the party of "borrow and spend" and they are borrowing the money from your kids.

But they're against flag burning.. so let's keep 'em!!! Yeeha!