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- loganhid, on 10/10/2007, -4/+43While Countries like Japan and India are building their countries and advancing in technology, this government is wasting it's resources on an unjustified and illegal war.
- bjornski, on 10/10/2007, -2/+37Remember how we "defeated" the Soviet Union in the cold war?
Yeah, they spent themselves into bankruptcy arming themselves for war.
We're next. - billib, on 10/10/2007, -4/+37Open Letter to the President:Sit the ***** down and be the lame duck that your are. There is absolutely no need for this country to suffer for your ignorance. I wish you were dead.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -10/+41Why not find the $2.3 Trillion that Rumsfeld announced the Pentagon "lost" on 9/10/2001? Oh yeah, lucky enough 9/11/01 happened and everyone seemed to forget about that pesky little $2.3 Trillion.
Wake the ***** up and realize what is happening to us.
http://benfrank.net/patriots/news/national/pentagon_missing_trillions - OBKenobi, on 10/10/2007, -5/+28Pentagon lost? How about the billions Halliburton and other military contractors stole and continue to steal in Iraq today? They will be getting some of those $50 billion too when the cowards in Congress pass the bill without a timetable again.
- badassninja, on 10/10/2007, -6/+25And I want my freedom back. How does it feel to want?
- mashedpotatoes, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17I can't imagine what it would cost if we were actually in a real war. This occupation for oil has cost trillions and on the 2 year anniversary of Katrina it's ironic that we can't get them the money they need to rebuild. Our own American city still in ruins, what would it cost? 1 billion, 5 billion? But this dumbass piece of ***** president wants to dump another 40 billion in the desert on the other side of the earth for nothing. Where are our priorities? We should all be ashamed. Oh well, back to sleep America.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19If it's too hard for the Pentagon to properly account for the trillions we've wasted on them, the solution may be to stop wasting our money at the Pentagon.
- shaka776, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15Total cost to give every single kid in the US one of those $100 laptops (you know, to give them some basic technology skills and familiarity with how the business world works):
about $5 Billion - thomasprebble, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16And he's going to get it thanks to your accountability lacking, ***** up government.
- omnithought, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Bush reminds me of a heroin junkie. Just one more fix...everything will be ok after that...just one more fix...
- fancypantscz, on 10/10/2007, -5/+15FTA: Some consideration is being given to trimming the new request by a few billion dollars, the White House official said. But, he added, "this is pretty close to a done deal." Almost all the spending is relatively noncontroversial, he added, with the vast majority of it necessary just to keep the U.S. military operating in Iraq. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk to reporters, said that the supplemental requests are likely to be "rolled together" and considered as one package.
Well now, I feel much better knowing that "almost all the spending is relatively noncontroversial". I guess that means that only SOME of the money will be, lost, stolen, used to buy weapons that are eventually turned on US soldiers, and given directly to Dick Cheney. - Revcorrupt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10So he is one step closer to asking for “500 Billion dollars” and putting his pinky up to his lip and laughing hysterically…
I hate this president. He must be removed from office. His economic policies are destroying not just the US, but the world. - synthpop, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10people, you're forgetting about 'trickle down economics'. those billions are going to make alot of "defense" contractors VERY rich, now one of those contractors might want to hire a Swedish nanny for their spoiled child, and that nanny might one day go to Walmart to purchase cheap Chinese goods hereby helping pay your future salary as a shelf stocker. see it all balances out in the end..
- DangerCollie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Labeling something "extreme left propaganda" doesn't alter the factual basis, it's merely a convenient mechanism for perpetuating denial.
They're lying about the cost of the supplemental for the Iraq war. The 460 billion is defense '08 budget. The supplemental for the Iraq war is now over 200 billion. The 50 billion is additional. That's on top of what we've already spent.
"The revised supplemental would total about $200 billion, indicating that the cost of the war in Iraq now exceeds $3 billion a week."
We're spending 3 billion a week in Iraq, roughly 150 billion a year. This supplemental budget request represents over half of what we've already spent in total. This is totally insane, we have to stop this now. Your grandchildren will be paying back this debt. The US economy is strong but this is a huge load of debt. And the spending on Iraq and Afghanistan are not counted in the overall budget deficit. We're bankrupting future generations of Americans and you're supporting the people robbing them. - Delphium226, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I assume you're going to advocate going after Israel for all the UN resolutions they've ignored? No? Thought not.
- c0ldfusi0n, on 10/10/2007, -4/+13Twice.
- Nocturnalis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9sad but true.
although I voted for the other guy.....
TWICE - Waiting2awake, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10That damn Liberal bias of reality again huh?
- da_bradler, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Sweet I really hope you americans keep spending money you don't have because the more you spend the weaker your dollar becomes and the cheaper it is to buy stuff off ebay :)
- laserblazer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7And China is next once the New World Order squeezes their resources out of them.
It's ongoing criminal enterprise made possible by greasy politicians and ignorant, hateful hicks - the kind you find in every society - the kind that would support Bush. - MikeCampo, on 10/10/2007, -8/+15Poor America...Oh well, it's your own fault for voting these people to power.
- e68895f, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Haliburton doesn't manufacture $100 laptops.....
- gjmcnamee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld should have their assets liquidated and they should all be put on the front line of this battle. I don't want another cent of my money funding this debacle! If those ***** wanna wage war then make them ***** pay for it, and put their ***** necks on the line. We cannot fund a health care system, but we can blow nearly a trillion or more dollars on this ***** fest!!!!
- audi100quattro, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Irrationally financed houses, meet irrationally financed war. Can we do anything rationally anymore?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Congress could simply not bring up any more funding bills. They don't have to vote on anything, they don't have to debate it. They can simply ignore George's illegal war and let it wither and die.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6@ evo8ftw: you have no idea what logic is. It is amusing to hear someone like you speak of logic, when your comments are devoid of rationality. In one breath you speak of logic, then resort to some sort of silly attempt at an insult (by labelling your critic a 'liberal' of all things - look at the dictionary definition of liberal and you will find it is no kind of insult, quite the opposite ~ perhaps you would really like to use the term "commie" without sounding like a fruitcake?). An absolutely valueless, cheap comeback followed by your quick running-away from the conversation, without having adequately explained your views, or countered your detractor in any way other than like a child. Far from sounding 'logical' you come across like an hysteric. You convince no one. Don't talk to anyone about logic, evo8ftw. Your original comment, the one he's replying to, was devoid of sense, it was weak. You just want to hide from something you don't like to hear. Go ahead and live in your little dream world, fool, but don't bother the rest of us out here in the real world with your whining.
- laserblazer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7The '00 and '04 elections were stolen. If you doubted the truth before the GOP emails were found, you were probably just naive or stupid. If you still doubt it, you're evil or retarded.
- sremick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6So basically they don't feel like accounting for $2.3 trillion because it'd be too much effort?
I ask: how many trillions of unaccounted-for taxpayer money does it take to warrant an effort?
Or, alternatively: how much under-the-table personal incentive does it take to agree to not make the effort?
If the IRS went after the Pentagon for their missing $2 TRILLION with at least half the gusto they went after me for an honest $2K error... - Joe_rigby, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Just say no.
- ronaldinho, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5to think we have issues in our own country and here we are trying to wriggle another $50 billion to a war that's not worth it? this country's priorities haven't been right ever since Bush took over. what about social security? tax? poverty? illegal immigrants? and when the government is focused on those issues, they are ***** it up and not making it any better
THIS IS INSANE - ren1999, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Let's give Bush the money when he sends his daughters to active combat duty. Let them drive and ride in a convoy.
- MadN, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Congress should tell him to go ask Halliburton.
- supaklaw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5DId you expect hospitals or infrastructure to get built in Iraq or something? It's to deplete our Treasury and force our economy to become dependant on private business. Federal government as we know it is officially hobbled... FEMA, EPA, HUD... you know, that useless crap. Put a huge tax burden to pay off debt on middle class... and bam... no more middle class. Rich aristocracy (with no class, etiquette, manners, language skills) and the rest. Enjoy America!
- morchibby, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5How sad that that is true.
- link1922, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4$510 billion dollars and 4000 lives lost just to stop extremists from crashing planes into our buildings. For much less than that, you could have loaded every single passenger jet in the US with five fully suited marine soldiers wielding machine guns who would abruptly take care of any soul who desired to hi-jack the plane. And it would have saved us this huge headache which is now ugly free for all iraq.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4How old are you? Eleven? 'lolzer'? And the rest of what you said doesn't even make any sense. A smart man knows his own limitations. You do not. Enjoy kidding yourself you don't sound clueless. You better hope to hell Bush doesn't go to war with Iran, cos you sound like you're in just the right age-group to sign up, & you sure as hell don't have enough troops for what will come next if he does! Buh-bye, now.
- hellotyler, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5EAT MY ASS, MR. PRESIDENT!
- BarneyF, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Actually that is what Bin Laden has publically stated to be his plan. He says he was responsible for the fall of the Soviet Union, not the US.
- ZenFountain, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5The military commanders have basically given Bush the ball with his little war and said "We're done, have fun with this." It's time for congress to grow a f*cking pair and say no, we can't afford it and and we can't win. Instead of sending the troops new equipment to get blown up and killed in we should send all the transport planes we have to bring them home and let the wonderful democracy we setup in Iraq do it's own work. Every day the memorial wall for this war gets a little bit longer and a lot more painful.
- BarneyF, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Only problem is, we don't have a strategy or any clearly defined objectives.
- ahhell, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Right! Cause the world runs on the USD. Typical American thinking.
- growler1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4And the 50 Billion the Republican Congress shoveled down to the gulf coast in a massive cya move? Yeah, that's gone, too, because of a crooked system of contractors/subcontractors, and good old gross incompetence in the execution of those funds.
- jhnewt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Lets see there's about 300 million americans so in more personal terms, Bush wants another $166 per citizen on top of the $1500+ per citizen for the defense budget.
- CmdrBob, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hAx5G0I9mU ..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COpfvXj_BVo http://www.youtube.com/soundlessdawn ...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwQa5eokieY
- Delphium226, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4There is no such thing as a free quagmire. Stop complaining!
- MrSteamTank, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I'm surprised how much abuse the American economy can withstand. As a Canadian/Uruguayan I have to say that no other country can withstand the kind of ridiculous and thoughtless overspending that the States is currently doing(the numbers listed are astronomical when compared to the other countries I'm aware of. I guess that's a testament to the power of the American economy. Although at the rate this is going it probably won't be for long.
- sirholio, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Saddam could have helped himself out quite a bit.
as far as Israel and it's ignoring UN resolutions, http://www.mediamonitors.net/michaelsladah&suleimaniajlouni1.html#israelsdefiedresolutions
there's a list there. I don't honestly know the historical context of each, so I won't comment on that. Only to say that remember not to always take things at face value. - sirholio, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3One of our biggest problems is that a lot of people here tend to vote with their feelings rather than their brain. Pick your representative. Not who you hate least.
- ChayD, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Just keen 'em $$$ rollin' in, guys. (And we'll see if we can't arrange a little on the side for your good selves *rubs hands and chuckles*) - Regards, Hank Hapablap III, CEO and Fat cat - Global Armaments, Inc*
(* Global Armaments, inc is a fictitional corporation. Any resemblance to existing corporations is *purely* coincidental. Mr Hapablap is also a fictional character...you get the idea...) -
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