Rep Conyers: "Is your family ready to pay $10,000 for Bush's war?"

[understandinglife]

Now, this is a way to make it personal and simple enough for just about anyone to get:

Bob Herbert in his op-ed piece in the New York Times today highlights a study that I have been looking into by Joseph Stiglitz, a nobel-prize winning economist and Linda Bilmes, a colleague from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

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Between one and two trillion dollars! It's hard to imagine that this Administration would ever commit these funds to places where it is really needed. Where is this money going to be when Bush decides (if ever) to aid New Orleans reconstruction? Or to make health care available to those without insurance.

Or consider the war's cost to you directly. $10,000 is the cost to each household for the first $1 trillion. Is your family ready to pay $10,000 for Bush's war?

Link:
http://www.conyersblog.us/archives/00000408.htm

Yep, you get to pay $ 10,000 of your earnings so that Bush can continue to kill Iraqi children and their parents and grand parents and cousins ...


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[AndyA]

1. I think we need to fix AMERICA first

New Orleans/Louisiana/Mississippi.

Health insurance.

Prescription medicine.

Infrastructure - decaying roads/bridges.

Take care of our veterans.

Instead of destroying, we need fix and rebuild.

[walldude]

7. And could have fixed all that fairly easily

with the money we are spending in Iraq.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

8. Yep. $90B a year would take care of all that.

And when the war is over, the Pubes will cry "But we don't have the money!" These people are motherfuckers of the first order.

[uppityperson]

2. No, my family is not ready.

[ccpup]

3. They also need to remind people

that the $10,000 per family is not only going to the Iraq war, but to the companies that are making a fortune off of the Iraq war, including many allied with both the Bush and Cheney families. Is your family ready to spend $10,000 to further the Bush/Cheney fortunes?

[understandinglife]

4. "Is your family ready to spend $10,000 to further the Bush/Cheney fortunes

Perfect.

It's such a simple set of questions, isn't it.

Is your family ready to donate $ 10,000 to salaries for executives at Halliburton, Bechtel, ...?


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[newyawker99]

6. Hi ccpup!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[ccpup]

9. A pink dancing elephant

and two frosty mugs ... how perfect is that?!?!?! And thanks for the Welcome. :)

[DemReadingDU]

5. I think Ken Lay should donate

his greedy millions from stealing from Enron to the war effort

[lebkuchen]

10. Why doesn't Conyers run for pres?

I love his work.

How do I get Bob Herbert's piece on Bush's Trillion dollar war w/o having to sign up for a subscription?

[A Simple Game]

11. I knew a guy that used to say "it's not much if you say it fast".

Besides, they are going to let you make small annual payments for the rest of your life, your children's life, and your grandchildren's life.

What a deal, eh!

[PatrioticLeftie]

12. Ten grand?

My family could really use that for college.