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House approves another 50 billion for Iraq

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My comment: Goddamn spending whores in DC need their asses thrown out!!! :|

The subcommittee passed its bill as House and Senate negotiators put final touches on an emergency measure for about $67 billion the Pentagon wants immediately to cover the wars' rising costs.

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.
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Stupid bastards! You people want REAL tax cuts? Start by getting rid of the assholes in DC that spend money like this for EVERY stupid thing that comes along and they don't know when to quit.

Edit: And I don't mean replacing the GOP with the Democrats either. I mean replace the whole fvcking crew with a new one. Hell, illegal immigrants might be better than what we have in DC.
 
All politicians are guilty of overspending regardless of their party affiliation. Yes I agree that they all need to get tossed out on their cans and the country needs a fresh start in a new direction. Their amnesty plan is the real budget buster and will wreck things. It's the concrete retaining wall that our drunken drivers are about to smash into full speed ahead and we will all end up paying for it in many ways.
 
cry me a river.

I too would much rather see the money spent differently, but reality dictates that we must spend the money to combat anti-western fanaticism on a global scale. -I- am willing to make the financial and physical sacrifices necessary to eliminate said fanaticism. such is life.

It makes me sick to think that some of you would argue against money that is going directly to the troops on the ground doing the work in this war... after all, supporting them financially is the least you could do to help out in this war... bah.
 
Palehorse, I think one of the bigger concerns is that the money will be mis spent, and we will over pay like crazy. Looking at the past financial dealing with the War on Iraq and the way CPA spend the money...it is a problem.
Listen I agree that we totally screwed up Iraq, so we have to pay the price...but we don't pay with the type of carpet bagging that is going on in Iraq. That becomes a diservice to us, and the Iraqis
 
Originally posted by: magomago
Palehorse, I think one of the bigger concerns is that the money will be mis spent, and we will over pay like crazy. Looking at the past financial dealing with the War on Iraq and the way CPA spend the money...it is a problem.
Listen I agree that we totally screwed up Iraq, so we have to pay the price...but we don't pay with the type of carpet bagging that is going on in Iraq. That becomes a diservice to us, and the Iraqis
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carpet bagging?
 
Speaking of lies we've been told... Y'all remember this? (Cut and paste from internet source)

The White House's early projections for the cost of the war and its aftermath were around $50 billion. On Sept. 15, 2002, in an interview with a newspaper, White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsay estimated the war would be about 1 to 2 percent of the gross national product, or about $200 billion on the high end. Lindsey left the White House post several months later.

Office of Management and Budget Director Mitch Daniels called Lindsay's estimate "very, very high" and told news organizations the cost would likely be between $50 billion and $60 billion.

Just weeks before the war, White House spokesman Ari Fleisher told reporters that Iraq would be able to "shoulder much of the burden" of reconstruction because of its oil wealth.

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told Congress a month into the war something similar: "We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon."
 
Originally posted by: palehorse74
cry me a river.

I too would much rather see the money spent differently, but reality dictates that we must spend the money to combat anti-western fanaticism on a global scale. -I- am willing to make the financial and physical sacrifices necessary to eliminate said fanaticism. such is life.

It makes me sick to think that some of you would argue against money that is going directly to the troops on the ground doing the work in this war... after all, supporting them financially is the least you could do to help out in this war... bah.
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Cry me a river! I can bitch about my money being spent how I wish. If you don't like it, start your own thread and get out of mine!
 
Add in other intangle costs and the war cost will easily top 1.2 trillion---but thats just a dated shocking figure from over a year ago.

But cheer up all---if Iraq goes civil war that spills over to other countries in the region---the cost of that could make what is spent so far look like a pittance.

Years ago us Americans had the time honored custom of running some people out of town on a rail after decorating their persons with a liberal coating of tar and feathers.
Maybe its time to revive that custom.
 
Originally posted by: Engineer
Originally posted by: palehorse74
cry me a river.

I too would much rather see the money spent differently, but reality dictates that we must spend the money to combat anti-western fanaticism on a global scale. -I- am willing to make the financial and physical sacrifices necessary to eliminate said fanaticism. such is life.

It makes me sick to think that some of you would argue against money that is going directly to the troops on the ground doing the work in this war... after all, supporting them financially is the least you could do to help out in this war... bah.
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Cry me a river! I can bitch about my money being spent how I wish. If you don't like it, start your own thread and get out of mine!
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Hey, as long as you realize that your only contributions to this world are carbon dioxide and the sound of your own bitching, then it's alllll good.

as you said...
 
Originally posted by: RMich
Speaking of lies we've been told... Y'all remember this? (Cut and paste from internet source)

The White House's early projections for the cost of the war and its aftermath were around $50 billion. On Sept. 15, 2002, in an interview with a newspaper, White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsay estimated the war would be about 1 to 2 percent of the gross national product, or about $200 billion on the high end. Lindsey left the White House post several months later.

Office of Management and Budget Director Mitch Daniels called Lindsay's estimate "very, very high" and told news organizations the cost would likely be between $50 billion and $60 billion.

Just weeks before the war, White House spokesman Ari Fleisher told reporters that Iraq would be able to "shoulder much of the burden" of reconstruction because of its oil wealth.

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told Congress a month into the war something similar: "We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon."
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Yup, and the medicare drug benefit will only cost 400 billion, and SS will be solvent until 2048.
 
Originally posted by: palehorse74
Originally posted by: Engineer
Originally posted by: palehorse74
cry me a river.

I too would much rather see the money spent differently, but reality dictates that we must spend the money to combat anti-western fanaticism on a global scale. -I- am willing to make the financial and physical sacrifices necessary to eliminate said fanaticism. such is life.

It makes me sick to think that some of you would argue against money that is going directly to the troops on the ground doing the work in this war... after all, supporting them financially is the least you could do to help out in this war... bah.
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Cry me a river! I can bitch about my money being spent how I wish. If you don't like it, start your own thread and get out of mine!
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Hey, as long as you realize that your only contributions to this world are carbon dioxide and the sound of your own bitching, then it's alllll good.

as you said...
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You have no clue what I contribute. :cookie: I have the FULL RIGHT to bitch. If you don't like it, have a dozen more :cookie: 's jerkoff!
 
what i'd really like to see is a list of corporations and persons who are profiting from the deaths and maiming of our troops along with how much they have/are/will be paid from the taxpayers. $500 billion.....where has it all gone? is there ever going to be an accurate accounting of it all?

i assume all the monies we're borrowing from the chinese et al to help rebuild iraq will somehow find its way back to the public coffers and not diverted toward the profiteers who are already making a "killing" over there as it is?

are the taxpayers going to be paid back the "loan" we are extending to the iraqi gov't through the sale of all that iraqi oil that's (not) being pumped out of the sand just like bush and co. said it would? and if not, why not?

will the oil companies be skimming windfall profits from the sale of the iraqi oil that reimburses the taxpayers of the US? or will all profits from the sale of the iraqi oil be sent directly back to the taxpayers who financed this war?

edit - out of curiosity, i googled "halliburton kbr mis-spending bribes non-bid contracts" and the flood of data out there overwhelmed me. sickening.

here's a quick example - one of hundreds



 
Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
Originally posted by: ntdz
Zarqawi is DEAD!
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Worth every penny.
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If the US government sent you a bill for your portion of this BORROWED 1/2 TRILLION dollar sham of a war, you would cry like a fvcking baby and you know it.
 
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