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- alapoet, on 06/10/2008, -34/+575Please, America... Don't vote for McCain and five more years of this.
- itzdiceman, on 06/11/2008, -26/+253My portion: (543236299998/300000000) = $1810.
As a 24 year old graduate and a solid middle-classer in the 25% bracket, I've already had $3843 taken out in Federal Withholding alone this year. Thats not counting Medicare, SS, or State taxes.
Thats less than 1 quarter of 1 year's worth of taxes, to pay for a 5 year war.
Money isn't the issue. Lives lost is the real cost. - inactive, on 06/11/2008, -5/+223Let's not forget, we have spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars rebuilding New Orleans.
- TheLogic, on 06/11/2008, -3/+200I want the shirt that says "I spent $550,000,000,000 to fight Iraq and all I got was a lousy cell phone video of Saddam being hanged".
- NaziHatinChimp, on 06/11/2008, -23/+217That's a small price to pay for freedom guys. Aren't you more free now?
- sodade, on 06/10/2008, -7/+183What's that slapping my ass? Oh, it's just the MIC ***** america again. 60 years of plundering >50% of our taxes and not accomplishing one ***** thing that actually benefits the american people.
- rodimusminor, on 06/11/2008, -8/+138$543,236,299,998 ? I could almost buy gas for a year with that.
- Carl306, on 06/11/2008, -7/+134Imagine that money being spent towards the benefit of us taxpayers, including, but not limited to, healthcare, education, transportation, alternative energies, etc...
One can only hope - ligyron, on 06/11/2008, -2/+104A few seconds in Iraq pays for my tuition costs for the past 3 years
- slug007, on 06/11/2008, -16/+109Commander-in-Chief = former oil executive = middle east = war = billions of tax payers dollars = $4.00 + a gallon.
- psibladeZX, on 06/11/2008, -3/+84And we cant get healthcare why? ohhhh... right. 2/3rd of the ***** budget goes to defense... defense from what??? jesus christ, we're like a bully on the playground who's paying for protection... here's an idea... get out of all countries we have bases in, come back, reduce size of military, and if anyone tries to start some *****, THEN we can go kick their ass. I dont know about you, but thats how I played in my playground... didnt start anything, but if someone started with me, I'd kick their ass.
- PCloadLetterWTF, on 06/11/2008, -3/+78Thats a lot of games of golf.....
- Duositex, on 06/11/2008, -1/+74So let's get this straight. You get yourself into office. You start a war in the middle east to drive up oil prices. You make us pay for the war there to guarantee yourself access to the oil so you can sell it us. You put our economy in the dump because of said war and oil prices. Then you write us "stimulus checks" of OUR OWN MONEY so that we can afford the oil that YOU are selling us.
Biggest god damn scam in history. - drmangrum, on 06/11/2008, -2/+69What's half a trillion between friends?
- swrostmore, on 06/11/2008, -1/+59From the alternate perspective that taxes are actually supposed to be used for something, instead of vanishing into thin air, the fact that 1/4th of middle class America's taxes are being burned up in Iraq is in fact an issue.
- 1aaaa, on 06/11/2008, -1/+56money isn't THE issue but it is a pretty big one. After all, while your portion may be only a part of the taxes you pay, the government was already spending more than it was taking in. This is spending money we don't have and won't have for years and years.
- fr3nch13, on 06/11/2008, -18/+68Presidential terms are only four years.
- Conwaysb0718, on 06/11/2008, -4/+54Just think of how stimulated the economy would have been...
- dondara, on 06/11/2008, -12/+61HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ...wait, you aren't serious, right?
- faatbuddha, on 06/11/2008, -6/+54And if he were to be elected and the war were to continue, it would not end abruptly when he left office.
- inactive, on 06/11/2008, -3/+51But the Bush administration went before Congress and said the war would pay for it's self through the sale of oil.
Are you as sick of the lies as me? - delrin500, on 06/11/2008, -2/+48And 25 billion has positively been identified as Stolen, "Lost", mismanaged or some other way misappropriated. Largest heist in American and probably world history.
Source: Any news outlet OUTSIDE the US. - facereplacer, on 06/11/2008, -5/+49GUYS! We can double-down in Iran make back or money 2 fold!
I'm enlisting! War is so helpful. - inactive, on 06/11/2008, -3/+47i didn't realize every citizen of the U.S. payed taxes, perhaps you should readjust your calculation to a more accurate representation of the taxable population.
- jphillips1, on 06/11/2008, -4/+46What if that boat load of money had been used to educate our youth, to improve a dilapidated infrastructure, or emergency management response, or alternative energy development, or for efforts to save the environment, or to help cure cancer, or MS, or to help the poor and starving of our country, or to prevent crime, or drug dependency, or hell, just given back to the taxpayer. What if...
- directrix13, on 06/11/2008, -1/+42This is approximately 6% of our total national debt (not deficit mind you). People who are downplaying the cost of this war are idiots.
- Noureddin, on 06/11/2008, -9/+49McCain is a psychopath.
- pintomp3, on 06/11/2008, -2/+42that is pre 9/11 thinking.
ps. i think he was referring to rest of bush term + mccain term - GorfTron, on 06/11/2008, -1/+35= MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
- Itazura, on 06/11/2008, -9/+41That much money wasted? I totally could of been flying around in a spaceship by now if we invested that into NASA! DAMN YOU BUSH!!!
- idc5, on 06/11/2008, -3/+35It's already at $543,519,416,495 only 18.5 hours after you posted this
- MxM111, on 06/11/2008, -1/+29Do you really need to see [/sarcasm] to understand it?
- Conwaysb0718, on 06/11/2008, -10/+35Imagine them not taxing us/borrowing to pay for that ***** in the first place.
- NeoCortex, on 06/11/2008, -1/+25That's not too bad. At least it wasn't something like $543,236,300,000. That would have just been too far.
- inactive, on 06/11/2008, -0/+23You gotta only count taxpayers. Those under 18 and illegals don't count.
- Quenlin, on 06/11/2008, -8/+31And in the end, we have no oil, gas is more expensive than milk, everyone suspects Muslims of being terrorists, no rights at the airport, a president who can get hanged for treason, 35 articles of impeachment ignored, illegal wiretaps in our homes, and the Ku Klux Klan can still freely march up and down our streets.
Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome to America. - relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -1/+24*****, think of how many swimming pools filled with Jell-O I could have bought with that. What a waste.
- greatawakening, on 06/11/2008, -3/+25I just threw up in my mouth a little bit, but then I swallowed it back down because that's what I've been doing for the last 7 years anyway.
- inactive, on 06/11/2008, -0/+22Then you pay for it. It's not worth a dime or single drop of blood to me.
- GeneralFault, on 06/11/2008, -0/+21Or to the fact that it has already gone on for 5 years.
- linagee, on 06/11/2008, -0/+21Zero. It's a trick question!
- inactive, on 06/11/2008, -0/+21I gave 10 bucks.
- rrife, on 06/11/2008, -3/+24It just money, we can always print more.
- Shellbait, on 06/11/2008, -3/+24As a republican, I do agree with this comment.
- faatbuddha, on 06/11/2008, -3/+23largest oil reserves in history + perceived shortage - any trace of supply and demand = $4/g
makes sense to me! - InfiniteNothing, on 06/11/2008, -2/+22A. He was keeping al queda away
B. You'd think could do an assassination a little cheaper. - directrix13, on 06/11/2008, -0/+20Or what if it was used to actually pay back part of that almost 10 trillion dollars we owe now.
- cawpin, on 06/11/2008, -3/+22The parts of New Orleans that were destroyed should NOT be rebuilt. They are below the flood plane. It will happen again.
- Mallhew, on 06/11/2008, -2/+21Or 100 years, as it were...
- verdouxkai, on 06/11/2008, -0/+19lol, he meant at the gas pumps! you know he gets confused sometimes...
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