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Earth_First Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 08:59 PM
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Half a TRILLION dollars!
House panel clears another $50 billion for Iraq

The next $50 billion bridge fund, which lawmakers expect to cover about six months, would bring the cost of both wars to nearly $450 billion, and many expect that to reach $500 billion by the end of next year. Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said the Pentagon was spending about $8 billion a month on Iraq, where costs have climbed, and about $1 billion a month in Afghanistan.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2006-06-07T233952Z_01_N07277087_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-CONGRESS.xml

:wow:
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Random_Australian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 09:02 PM
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1. Truly, if your leaders were to make a string of coconuts from
here to Neptune, transported by solid gold spaceships that are fueled by burning banknotes, it would be cheaper.
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me b zola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 09:27 PM
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3. ...and all the while...
~people in the US are dying from lack of health care...

~people in the US are working longer hours for less pay...

~people in the US are losing their pensions as CEO's are collecting the largest 'golden parachutes' ever on record...

~people in the US are losing their homes...

~people in the US are becoming homeless...

~a US city is left to die--as we all watched on tv...

~as all of us are stuggling just to get by...

~as US GI's are dying and being ripped apart, physically & mentally by the illegal war that they were sent to fight...

~~~~~and many of the people that I have mentioned in the first six instances are veterans who have fullfilled their obligation and have served their nation over-seas~~~~~


It is so obscene, the wealth that these war-profiteers roll in as the rest of us fade away in obscurity. The obscenity, the perversion, of the growing distance between the haves and the have-nots is mind numbing.
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 09:08 PM
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2. Math???

50 billion for six months... or (8+1) * 6 = 54... but, 450 with the additional 6 month appropriation... but only 500 by the
end of NEXT year (in other words... somehow the cost goes down by more than half by the end of this year???)

WTF?
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 09:35 PM
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6. They are going to appropriate more money at the end of the year..
that's what they do...I am guessing right before November..
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 09:30 PM
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4. And the IMF calls for new taxes in US:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2327511

They are bankrupting this country faster than we can breathe.
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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 09:31 PM
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5. what does bush care
will all be dead anyway.
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