Sometimes I wonder if I am the only one thinking the following thought:
"If we are spending all of this money in Iraq - what were we spending it on before?"
Okay, $200 billion a year. That's a lot of dough. It seems to me that this money had to come from somewhere. It's not like Bush said "We're going to raise taxes to fund the war" or "We're going to have a big bake sale" - this money comes from taxes, right? Taxes we were already paying.
So, before the war, we had an extra $200 billion a year just sitting around? Did we cut a bunch of programs? What got cut?
Or, did we really just have this money siting around doing nothing? We certainly were not spending it on education or health or housing or poverty or anything useful.
$200 billion a year. There's, what, like 400 million people in this country? That's $500 bucks each. And that's just the money for the war.
I guess I just really don't understand the economics here. Where does that kind of money come from and we can't feed, house and educate our own people?
Bush cut taxes for the people who have money and power. For that, he was given unprecedented power over the weak and poor.
He used his power, with help from his wealthy powerful allies who control our over-consolidated media, to convince the less discerning of the weak and poor that Saddam Hussein had a hand in 9/11 and was about to overrun us with his mighty WMD's and the only way to save our Christian nation was for them to go die in a desert. Some of us didn't buy it. We were attacked for being so unpatriotic and cowardly as to demand actual proof that dying in a was really a useful thing to do.
Bush could not risk his offending his rich and powerful supporters by raising their taxes. He could not raise taxes on his weak and poor acolytes because they were pretty much broke.
So, having already erased Bill Clinton's hard earned budget surplus, he started borrowing inconceivable sums of money to pay for the costs of sending the weak and poor to the desert he wanted them to die in, insuring economic instability (affecting mainly those weak and poor who had yet to go die in a desert) for decades - generations - to come.
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Sometimes I wonder if I am the only one thinking the following thought:
"If we are spending all of this money in Iraq - what were we spending it on before?"
Okay, $200 billion a year. That's a lot of dough. It seems to me that this money had to come from somewhere. It's not like Bush said "We're going to raise taxes to fund the war" or "We're going to have a big bake sale" - this money comes from taxes, right? Taxes we were already paying.
So, before the war, we had an extra $200 billion a year just sitting around? Did we cut a bunch of programs? What got cut?
Or, did we really just have this money siting around doing nothing? We certainly were not spending it on education or health or housing or poverty or anything useful.
$200 billion a year. There's, what, like 400 million people in this country? That's $500 bucks each. And that's just the money for the war.
I guess I just really don't understand the economics here. Where does that kind of money come from and we can't feed, house and educate our own people?
Bush cut taxes for the people who have money and power. For that, he was given unprecedented power over the weak and poor.
He used his power, with help from his wealthy powerful allies who control our over-consolidated media, to convince the less discerning of the weak and poor that Saddam Hussein had a hand in 9/11 and was about to overrun us with his mighty WMD's and the only way to save our Christian nation was for them to go die in a desert. Some of us didn't buy it. We were attacked for being so unpatriotic and cowardly as to demand actual proof that dying in a was really a useful thing to do.
Bush could not risk his offending his rich and powerful supporters by raising their taxes. He could not raise taxes on his weak and poor acolytes because they were pretty much broke.
So, having already erased Bill Clinton's hard earned budget surplus, he started borrowing inconceivable sums of money to pay for the costs of sending the weak and poor to the desert he wanted them to die in, insuring economic instability (affecting mainly those weak and poor who had yet to go die in a desert) for decades - generations - to come.
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