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Mo’ Money, Mo’ WarPosted on May 14, 2009
The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved a $91.3 billion supplemental measure to finance the Iraqi and Afghan wars. An additional $80 million has been set aside to support the shutting down of Gitmo, $50 million of which is contingent on the Pentagon coming up with a plan on relocating prisoners. Another $900 million has been allocated to aid Pakistan in its battle against the Taliban.
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By foggyjones, May 17 at 11:54 pm #
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ref: Mordor on the Potomac
The Orcs are on the march and the dark riders speed past my window. The mad ones in the u.s. congress mean to wipe us out. Where is that Hobbit with the ring?
Dark and threatening situation. It cannot be long before the final struggle.
Report thisBy Paul_GA, May 15 at 6:37 pm #
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?”
Report thisBy bluelori, May 15 at 10:28 am #
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!
Report thisBy NYT 9237723, May 15 at 9:23 am #
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The military is a cancer on this country. It eats up our budget, our future, our sanity. To even question its goals, results and expense provokes outcries of lack of patriotism. The US is a garrison state, and we won’t have health care, education, environmental clean-up, etc., until we rein the military in and reduce it to a small, small percentage of our budget. Our military adventures around the globe make everyone here less safe. The book review in today’s Truthdig is an eye-opener.
Report thisBy Paul_GA, May 15 at 8:53 am #
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).
Report thisBy Big B, May 15 at 8:40 am #
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?
Report thisBy coloradokarl, May 15 at 7:22 am #
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…...
Report thisBy Ribald, May 15 at 1:36 am #
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.
Report thisBy jackpine savage, May 14 at 10:27 pm #
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.
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