Lindy, Marc Ash is not a sane person. The short quote you gave is not consistent even with itself. Record prosperity in 2000, okay. Who was the most prosperous? The poor? Who were these mysterious people eyeing this wealth? Couldn't be the prosperous ones, they already had it. The leprechauns? Come on, who had the wealth in 2000? And who wanted to take it from them?

I would bet money you have no idea who or what the Carlyle Group is, other than what you read on the tinfoil-hat sites. You probably don't know crap about what Halliburton is making either.

BTW, think real, real hard now:

Which expenditure of public funds does NOT end up in the hands of private individuals at some point?

You continue to amaze me. You will not believe that Saddam had or planned to construct weapons of mass destruction until you have seen with your own eyes and felt with your own fingers the nuclear warheads lined up in a row.

Yet any yammerhead can come up with a steaming pile of bullshit that even flies would avoid, and you eat it up like candy. You need to work on your credulity rheostat.