What would you do with $1055.47?

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Benonymous

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I found a website that shows the scale of the pile of dollar notes expended on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The tally is 315 billion if the information is accurate

http://www.crunchweb.net/87billion/

If this is the case then with the current population of 298,444,215 this government has spent $1055.47 for every citizen in the USA. All this for wars where the objectives and goals have been shifted so many times that nobody now knows what the current objectives of the fighting are. Has our money been well spent?

Doncha love the size of that 315 billion buckerooney pile!

Oh and in your opinions, what are the current objectives of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
 
If this is the case then with the current population of 298,444,215 this government has spent $1055.47 for every citizen in the USA
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I just got done paying >5 times that much for property taxes.

Since the flow of light Arabian crude is still coming, I'd say I got more for my $1K than I have for the $5K....
 
Ever notice the 'No Blood For Oil' bumper stickers are always on the 10 mpg SUVs driven by soccer moms? My car <3 Iraqi oil.
 
The money originally spent on Afghanistan was legit. Too bad, the genius in chief and his band of oil sucking cronies let the bad guys get away - and still mock us.

The money spent on Iraq is wasted and just a monument to the genius in chief's Freudian conflict with his dad. Now we are to spend more money and lives to prevent two groups of folks from killing each other as they disagree to the appropriate successor to Mohammed?
 
Oh and in your opinions, what are the current objectives of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
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IMNSHO, the ONLY true reason Bush gave for attacking Iraq was when he leaned over that podium and said "Besides - he (Saddam) tried to kill my Daddy". I don't recall there ever having been a more blatant show of macho bullsh*t than that. And it's all the worse because he didn't call Saddam out himself, he's spent 3000+ American lives and ruined countless thousands of others through massive injuries/amputations to do his dirty work.

Iraq is nothing more than VietNam with desert instead of jungle, and the only longterm goal is the same as it was in 'Nam - a welfare program for our military industrial complex.

I have tremendous respect and appreciation for our Military members, and absolutely none for those that sent them in harm's way.:barf:

Did anyone besides me notice that Exxon posted record profits last year? Did it occur to anyone that those profits came out of our pockets?

[quote I'd spend my 1055.47 to kill Saddam Hussein. [/quote]

Uh, you may want to ask for a refund - that check's been cashed.;)

All the best,
Rob
 
I am sure that there are plenty of Kurds, who if they could would gladly pay that back.

Just like any investment it is the ones with the weak stomachs that pull out when things get bad. I look at it like a long-term investment that in the end will likely pay dividends.

ANd hey, if I am wrong the money would have been screwed away on something else anyway.
 
I would allocate my $1K to whoever in Kurdistan is fighting for independance from Iraq. The Kurds have been oppressed by the Turks, the lower two of the three nations formerly known as Iraq, Iran, and last, but definitely not least, us, pretty much since the end of the Holy Roman Empire.

We let Saddam gas them without so much as calling foul and then later let him use his ground-attack choppers in the no-fly-zone to put down a rebellion that we instigated and promised to support.

And now we are going to let the Turks loose on them. In Bush's speech about the "surge" there was a nasty little side-note that nobody else seemed to notice but made steam come out of my ears:

"We will work with our Turkish allies to solve the problem on the border"

That "problem" is Kurdistan and the Kurds are our only real friends in all of that damn section of the middle-east. We need to partition the country, give them the northern oil fields and sell them some serious weaponry to keep the Turks, Iranians, and the Sunnis and Shiites of the former Iraq off of their backs. Economic aid also would be good.

So that's where I would send my portion if it was up to me.
 
How much money do we pay in socialized healthcare and a crippled education system a year? How much in 5 years?

Do the math, how much per person over 5 years?

kthxbye
 
Well said supertac. I less interested in how much is being spent on the war, and a lot more concerned on how much I am giving lazy people NOT to work, or teachers to brainwash our youth with touch-feely nonsense that's putting them in last place in terms of actual academic achievement.

There are a lot worse places American tax dollars are being spent on than the war.
 
Seriously, I would use the money to help working class kids get an education. That would do more for the country in the long term than helping the Iraqis reach 'democracy' so Chaney can make a buck on their oil.

BTW - why haven't the Bush twins enlisted to fight the good fight that Daddy says is so important? However, I know lots of service men and women here, going to school at night and then having their education interrupted. But the twins are partying in Argentina.

Bah.
 
Glenn E. Meyer,
Seriously, working class kids can and do get educations. They have to want it and their parents must insist and support it. BTW, my parents were poor, I knew through their constant support and pressure that I was going to get a college degree. It happened.

Education beyond HS should not be an entitlement. It should be an honor.

Bush is a self-serving hypocrite like 99% of our politicians. This trait is not party specific.
 
Being a working class kid and having gone to school, I feel charitable towards the working who want to go to school. If we have government handing out money - that's where I would want mine to go. I deal with the children of the rich who go school in very expensive cars and clothes and then do nothing to further their education.

They dishonor education and the parents who indulge them are dishonorable. They graduate and go to Europe or Argentina. I would give the money to soldiers I met who went into the service in part to further their education.

I think government support of education is well worth it and don't buy into the idea that public education is socialism baloney. Why should our armed forces get killed to protect Chaney's oil wealth? Let him hire his own army.

Starting to rant here, so ta, ta!
 
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