You got that right, NYT 9237723; all those grandiose things so many people want (health care, education, environmental clean-up and so on) won’t be had because guns come before butter—even to the supposedly “antiwar” Democrats!

To paraphrase Charlton Heston in the original “Planet of the Apes”, “You got the change you wanted, Tiger; how does it taste?”

ahaha piglosi knew all along and bo never had a problem with it please get a grip the democrats have been in charge for what 6 years and keep funding just like AIG bo knew all about the bonus’s and gave some FAKE outrage but he was paid off by the banks before he ever ran for president just like he voted YES on the bankruptcy bill.  The war funding is also a way to SNEAK in more foreign aid we CANNOT AFFORD!

Kiss economic recovery good-bye, folks. I’ve never heard of a country being able to fix its economy while fighting two debilitating foreign wars (with promises of more to come).

We treat the cost of war like you would treat a stolen credit card. Keep spending, who cares, nobody will ever have to pay for it’s illegal purchases.

The day will come (soon) that an american will walk into a doctors office, or hospital, with a sick child and shoot a nurse or administrator in order to see a doctor faster. How much money is it going to take to fight that war?

Do you think the Industrial Military Complex pays bribes..err…I mean “campaign contributions” to the s/hallow halls of Congress? Where else can $2500 get you $25million? The cheese dicks need to loose their jobs before our grand kids loose their future…...

They didn’t think we needed foreclosure relief money, but they think we do need to spend more to accidentally kill civilians and ineffectively fight guerrillas on the other side of the planet. Oh, and Obama is looking into paying for the indefinite detention of likely-innocent detainees too. That’ll get the economy moving again!

The Pentagon thinks the war in Afghanistan will have cost more than the war in Iraq by next year, and that one has cost more than $3 trillion already. The opportunity costs of the $6 trillion total can’t be comprehended by the human mind, as are the real losses incurred as a result of the conflicts. World hunger? An afterthought. Universal healthcare? Done. Repairing and improving infrastructure? Did it already.

In any other country, $6 trillion goes a long, long, long, long way. In America, it goes to hell.

Seems like that would be a better place to save money than making the undersecretary to the undersecretary of some slice of the interior department use fewer paperclips.

Oh that’s right, all the war costs are “off-budget”.  Never mind.